Word: bourbon
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...more controversial measures coming up. By all factions in Congress Harry Truman was still one of the best liked of all Presidents, but he had undeniably lost some of his early acceptance on the Hill. It was time for the pouring of oil on waters and of water on bourbon...
Under the Flagpole. On one of the islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
...climax was a full-dress reception at the French Embassy. Official and social Washington lined up all the way through the paneled reception room, down the garden steps and out on the driveway. While the imported champagne flowed, Senator Alben Barkley presented the General with a bottle of bourbon...
Spirits. Gin, rum, brandy, blended whiskey plentiful right away. Straight bourbon and Scotch 18 months to two years away...
...witness chair stepped dapper Prince Xavier de Bourbon-Parme, cousin of Archduke Otto of Austria and an ex-inmate of Dachau concentration camp...