Actually, the characterizations are false. Eva Braun was Hitler's long time mistress, and there is evidence that he liked them younger than that...
Winston Churchill's drink of choice was Scotch, and according to his private secretary, the reason that he seemed to have an amazing capacity to hold huge quantities was that he drank it very, very watered down. Also, he didn't exactly get "kicked out of office"...
I'm not sure what it means to accuse FDR of associating with "ward heelers", since they are merely party regulars who get out the vote locally, and they were certainly not his close friends. Why not say that Hitler associated with thugs, malcontents, and racists, or even better, was one? I don't know anyone who has ever made smoking an issue, except for a few fundamentalists, and the left- wing of the Democratic Party. As for the martinis, I don't know where such data came from, but it was not unusual at that time to have a couple during the day, say at lunch or at the end of the work day, to have a couple around dinner time, and to have a night cap or two. Again, I don't know anyone but a few fundamentalists, and the granola eating section of the left- wing of the Democratic Party, who would make a big deal of that. Besides, I have read that Hitler's hygenic practices were probably exaggerated for propaganda effect, and that he took drugs, albeit under a "physicians care", both amphetamines and sedatives.
Your little exercise is not only inaccurate, but beside the point. |
