rico567
Well-Known Member
First, if you think the presidents 2 centuries ago were anywhere as busy as a president is today, you really need to go back to your history books, asap.
Second: that comparison is unfair, to say the least. Yeah, in the 18th century, everybody and their dog was a brewer. George Washington was also a moonshiner. But you can't compare those times with now.
There's been 20 presidents since 1900 (if we count W. McKinley, who left the office in 1901). How many of them have been home brewers?
It was not seen as a full-time job, indeed, at the beginning, could not have been. The presidency has grown with the country, largely due to a series of national crises, to be an office that has accumulated customary power that would horrify any of the Founders. Nevertheless, through Congress, we've allowed the Presidency to become this, and we're stuck with it.....good and bad things.
Now if you'll pardon me, I have to do something more important than to comment about the COOTWH*, namely compile a list of ingredients for my Spring brewing!
*Current Occupant Of The White House