A while back, NPR had a story about Stephen Hess’s book, The Professor And The President, which detailed how Daniel Patrick Moynihan became one of Richard M. Nixon’s most influential domestic policy advisers.
I’m thinking that it Moynihan’s heavy drinking might have had something to do with is.
If I found myself working as Nixon as a domestic policy adviser, I’d be polishing off a 5th of Bourbon a day.