First address as Vice-President, widely reported as having been delivered while he was inebriated. (5 March 1865).
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“I think every man would be better off if he didn’t take any intoxicatin’ drink at all, but as men will drink, they ought to have good stuff without impoverishin’ themselves by goin’ to fancy places and without riskin’ death by goin’ to poor places. p. 86”
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise
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