Here's every president's favorite drink

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Here's every president's favorite drink
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A book released today called Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt, by Mark Will-Weber, offers a complete list of every American president's favorite drink (well, with the exception of a few teetotalers). Fortunately for those of us who don't have time to pore over the whole book today, Will-Weber has also published a summary list of each president's preferences at the New York Post. Some highlights:

John AdamsAdams loved alcohol, starting almost every morning with a hard cider. Then porter beer, rum, and copious amounts of Madeira.

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.