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...Cigar Constituency
Manhattan cabbies sometimes stop for the hailing figure on Park Avenue, but he never gets in. Patrons new to Kathy Gallagher's, a chic Los Angeles eatery, request tables far from the cigar chomper who seems to be a fixture in the place. In Boca Raton, Fla., vacationers have called police because a youth has loitered too long staring...
...have not had a serious cigar smoker in the White House since John Kennedy, and it has been downhill ever since. Kennedy loved a couple of postprandial H. Upmann Demitasses. He could see the world better after his smoke. Indeed, in the tense days of 1962 he sent Pierre Salinger, his cigar-loving press secretary, out one night to round up a thousand of the Upmanns. A bewildered Salinger appeared next morning to assure the President he had commandeered this great treasure, whereupon J.F.K. sighed, "Thank goodness, I can sign this." He pulled the Cuban trade embargo from his desk...
History gives cigars their just place in civilization. Without his huge Jamaican cigars, Winston Churchill might not have led the Allies to victory in World War II. Wrote Churchill's fellow Brit, Rudyard Kipling, who, like Churchill, got his start in the wars in India: "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke...
...both Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge were cigar smokers up to and through the White House years. They could not have been true connoisseurs, since historians have dealt rather harshly with them...