Former President Bush Discusses Past Drunken Hijinks With Matt Lauer

Turn your minds way, way back to October 2000. Bush and Gore were racing toward the finish line when beer company Sam Adams polled the American people about which candidate they’d prefer to have a beer with. Teetotaler George W beat Gore 40% to 37%.

Regardless of how you feel about how the election turned out, it seems that when choosing a drinking companion, America picked wisely because Ol’ W was apparently hilarious when he was on the sauce.

People Magazine is reporting that on next Monday’s Matt Lauer Reports, former President Bush will preview his upcoming memoir Decision Points by discussing what happened when he combined alcohol with his “wise-ass” personality:

“So I’m drunk at the dinner table at Mother and Dad’s house in Maine. And my brothers and sister are there, Laura’s there. And I’m sitting next to a beautiful woman, friend of Mother and Dad’s,” says Bush. “And I said to her out loud, ‘What is sex like after 50?’ ”

After that, one could hear a pin drop. It was “total silence,” says Bush. ” And not only silence, but like serious daggers” from my mom and my wife.

Bush apologized but the over-50 lady was a grand dame who got the last laugh. Bush reports that on his 50th birthday, he received a note from her asking: “Dear Governor, Well, what’s the answer?”

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