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...matrix for dictatorship." Nonetheless, even the most activist Presidents have run into brick walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push a button to get things done. Why, I spend most of my time kissing somebody's ass." And Johnson roared recently: "Power? The only power I've got is nuclear and I can't use that...
...bars stud every downtown block, than in the country (43%); more of them along the Northeastern seaboard (83%), which takes a certain pride in sophistication, than in any other section of the country. The South has the oddest regional attitude about drinking. Kentucky is practically the capital of the bourbon country, but it also forbids the sale of alcohol in four counties out of five. Widely blanketed by local prohibition laws, the South teems not only with "brown bag" joints, to which the patron brings his own bottle in a paper bag, but also with moonshine distilleries. Yet legal drinking...
...evidence, in fact, sustains the conviction that the average American knows how to handle his liquor. Strong whiskeys continue to lose popularity; bourbon is slipping even in the South. Light Scotches are In; vodka, which is odorless and tasteless and mixes with everything, now rivals gin in popularity-though the traditional martini seems to be holding its own. The drink taken on the rocks-which tastes weaker and lasts longer-is gaining. And so is the drink thoroughly diluted with such mixes as orange and tomato juice and beef broth. Most bartenders will even make a spirit-free Bloody Mary...
...immortalize the royal family. The shimmering panorama that Goya created has been called his supreme tour de force. With devastating candor, he laid bare the indolence of the King, the shallow depravity of Queen Maria Luisa (whose intrigues on behalf of her lover Godoy had reduced the Bourbon court to its final debility), and the self-centered vacuity of their relations. In imitation of Velasquez' 1656 portrayal of the royal maids of honor, Las Meninas, Goya painted himself into the picture as a prim, critical observer at his easel on the left of the picture...
...Coolidge, and he boasted that he had gone eight years in Congress without making a speech. They called him a miser and-though a multimillionaire-he employed his wife as full-time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with his protégés, Sam Rayburn and Wilbur Mills. In those backroom meetings of what he called the "Board of Education," Garner usually...