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Marie

When this talk began I was reminded immediately of a
song Bing Crosby performs in the movie Holiday Inn. 
It's a song extolling Lincoln on his birthday.  I
can't remember the words exactly, but Bing sings that
when Lincoln was told Grant was drinking on the job,
Lincoln replied "Let's get all my generals tight!"

Cathy
hoping to get back to PA


--- Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net> wrote:
> Ahem. Let us speak respectfully of the sons of
> Illinois.
> 
> Lincoln appreciated Grant:
> 
> <<One close associate of Lincoln's who did not agree
> with him about whiskey
> was General Ulysses S. Grant, who President Lincoln
> eventually placed in
> command of the Union army and who is generally
> credited with winning the war
> for the North. Grant was a notorious consumer of
> Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey,
> for which he was often criticized. Responding to
> that criticism, at the
> height of the war, Lincoln supposedly asked what
> brand of whiskey Grant
> preferred, so he could send some of it to all of his
> other generals. (Grant
> is said to have favored Old Crow.)>>
> 
> This came from
>
http://www.straightbourbon.com/articles/cclincoln.html,
> but
> I've heard many versions of the story.
> 
> Marie
> 
> 
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