Showing posts with label Ulysses S Grant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ulysses S Grant. Show all posts

Nov 9, 2012

Presidential Drinking

Our 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant had a reputation for drinking heavily while still a young man. When President Lincoln was warned about Grant’s drinking habits during the civil war he is supposed to have responded “If it makes fighting men like Grant, then find out what he drinks, and send my other commanders a case.”