OPINION
Trump and Biden have one thing in common: Neither drinks. That's rare for presidents.
Unless Prohibition ever returns, alcohol will remain a part of life at the White House – be it dinner wine, punch at a reception or a carefully worded champagne toast to a foreign leader.
Stewart D. McLaurin
Opinion contributor
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105 years ago Tuesday the Constitution’s 18th Amendment was ratified, making Prohibition the law of the land. Alcohol’s role in our society has also made it part of presidential history − as a staple of White House life and entertainment, as a tool in shaping political images, as the subject of a momentous national experiment and as a source of personal struggle for many Americans, including several presidents.
Distilled and fermented spirits have been a feature of our national life since Colonial times, when people consumed more than twice as much as we do today. Farmers took beer or whiskey into their fields, ale was part of supper and many workplaces offered a swig as a mid-morning break. Military rations could include alcohol, likely safer than drinking water that might be contaminated.
