Why you should drink claret on 4th July

Tokaji is the wine of emperors. Barolo the wine of kings. But Bordeaux is the wine of presidents.

Jul 04, 2023

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(A revisit of a post from last year - but appropriate for today)

The early 1970s Alexander Butterfield worked in the White House as an Assistant to the president. He was given two top secret jobs. One of them was to install a tape-recording system inside the Oval Office. The system had five microphones in the Wilson Desk, the one now used by the vice pr…

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