Mark Will-Weber > Quotes

“Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.”
― Mark Will-Weber

“Ousted from the Lincoln ticket, Hamlin—temperate when it came to his own drinking—perhaps was only too happy to comply. And so Johnson—on one of the most important days of his political career—opted for the dubious “hair of the dog” strategy. But sometimes the dog bites back.”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“James Buchanan’s collegiate record for “spirited” rambunctiousness arguably rivals that of George”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“What can an ex-President of the United States do except get drunk?” (There are other versions of the line that are quite similar.)”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“When some members of the Ford team (including the former president and Betty) left the White House for California the next day, it was said that everyone onboard a backup plane (Carter did not grant permission for them to use Air Force One) refused to eat the peanuts from an offering of mixed nuts—and then, in a fit of political pique (reinforced, perhaps by semi-serious hangovers or still slightly inebriated embers of the previous night’s ceremonial drowning of sorrows), purposely tossed the peanuts around the aircraft.”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.” Jefferson”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“More than a few historians have suggested that heavy drinking in colonial times (and well into the nineteenth century) occurred, at least in part, because water supplies were unreliable and could, in some cases, cause disease. Food supplies—often not properly refrigerated in an era when an icehouse was considered “high tech”—were similarly suspect.”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“James Buchanan’s collegiate record for “spirited” rambunctiousness arguably rivals that of George W. Bush while a student at Yale.”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking

“You can choose your friends, but not your relatives.”
― Mark Will-Weber, Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking