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The Refreshing Drink Abraham Lincoln Preferred Over All Others

An uncomfortable truth about American history is that many United States presidents did the job while sauced. Grover Cleveland was known to down up to a gallon of beer a day, and Richard Nixon spent his final weeks in office drinking his feelings away over the Watergate scandal. Andrew Johnson actually showed up intoxicated to Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration, where Johnson was being sworn in as vice president. However, Lincoln, by comparison, was among presidents who hardly drank alcohol. In fact, his drink of choice while in the White House was as tame as it comes: water.

Abraham Lincoln's reputation as an abstemious person is somewhat surprising considering he grew up in the Las Vegas of its time

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