FDR: Classiest Prez Ever

Those who know me know that I enjoy a cocktail from time to time (...to time, to time, ad infinitum). But I bow before the master.

While FDR cannot compare to the sheer tippling power of presidents like Grant, Truman (shot of bourbon before every meal--including breakfast), or Nixon. FDR was the truest of all: the Cocktail President. I mean, this is the man that shuffled us out of the dark days of Prohibition and said to America: You've lost you house and your job, you could probably use a highball.

Apparantly FDR's martini recipe was essentially, a little gin, a little vermouth, a little more gin, an olive, and a little absinthe. Dude, was putting absinthe in his martinis. During prohibition. So, as you can see, I must bow before the master of all cocktails. (Churchill hated FDR's martinis though, he found them to contain more than pure grain alcohol, which is how he drank them: "Pour the gin and look at the vermouth from across the room.") Then again we all knew FDR had to be the master, this was a guy who smoked cigarettes in a long holder piece without it looking like a stupid affectation. He was that classy. One must therefore doubly celebrate the triumph of the Allies in WWII since they appear to have been getting a buzz on the whole time.