Coffee Information the White House's "Coffee Politics"

The only Hawaiian coffee special at the White House.

Not Starbucks, not Dunkin Donuts, not specialty coffee from President Obama's hometown of Chicago. The only coffee known to be served at important White House occasions comes from Kona Rainforest Coffee grown on Hawaii's rainforest farms, while the White House generally orders premium blend.

Of course, Kona Rainforest Coffee, which can be displayed in various occasions in the White House, is also much more expensive than other coffees. It costs more than $20 for only half a pound, plus more than $10 for shipping. The reason why this brand of coffee is expensive is because it comes from a 24-acre farm in Hawaii, including two farmers and four employees, the farm has fertile land and produces 100% organic and pure Kona coffee beans all year round.

Eisenhower and Nixon clinked cups of hot coffee

Kona Coffee's presence in the White House was no accident. During the Bush administration, it was decided to restrict coffee from Hawaii to some high-level White House occasions. When Hawaii rainforest farmers learned about it, he provided samples of coffee from his farm, including 12 different varieties, to several senior White House officials, including presidential advisers and first lady Laura Bush. Since then, farmers have been receiving coffee orders from the White House.

Obama drinking tea vs Biden drinking coffee

It should be said that most people in the White House drink coffee. From the presidential aides who are common to journalists to cabinet members, they can always be seen holding a cup of coffee in the White House. However, there is also an outsider in the White House who does not drink coffee-he is President Obama who lives in the White House.

Obama's ceramic cup is almost full of tea

Obama, who has been attacked by the "Tea Party", is actually a loyal tea guest. White House press photos, whether from the Oval Office or aboard Air Force One, show Obama holding a cream-colored, gold-rimmed cup that Obama aides say mostly contains tea. A photographer who often takes close-up photos of Obama said he almost never sees Obama drinking coffee. Obama's former speechwriter also said that when he and Obama traveled, Obama almost never bought coffee and always bought tea.

Obama was recently photographed stopping at a Starbucks, and when a reporter shouted,"How about that coffee?" Obama replied,"It's tea!" When he met with a crowd at a well-known cafe in Missouri, he ordered an iced cup of Earl Grey tea.

Vice President Joe Biden is a big fan of coffee compared to Obama, who doesn't touch coffee. In addition to aides saying Biden likes coffee, many media outlets have photographed Biden buying coffee in high-end cafes. A previous New Yorker reporter who accompanied Biden described it as: "The vice president just sat down, loosened his tie, and then asked for a cup of coffee."

The White House has also repeatedly used Vice President Biden as a representative of White House "coffee politics." When fundraising is needed,"coffee with biden" is usually one of the main headings of the obama campaign's fundraising email, which includes a handwritten letter in biden's voice saying,"I want to buy you a cup of coffee."

So Biden has been likened by the media to "looking like he's had a few cups of espresso in a good mood and full of energy," while Obama has been likened to "like a cup of tea that settles slowly, slowly, cautiously, trying to balance."

Reagan sips coffee during campaign in 1976

Coffee Complex of American President

It should be said that coffee has existed in the White House since the United States had its first president. George Washington, the first president of the United States, was a coffee lover, according to a presidential cookbook published in 1968. In 1770, Washington imported 200 pounds of coffee from abroad through a Philadelphia merchant, and later wrote a special letter thanking him for importing it by ship from the Red Sea port.

In 1961, Kennedy enjoyed coffee while visiting NATO headquarters.

Coffee has played a major role in the work and life of every American president since then, from Abraham Lincoln, who was described as "completely uninterested in food and only interested in apples and hot coffee," to Roosevelt, who drank nearly a gallon of coffee a day, to Nixon, who ate coffee slowly from breakfast until work hours, to Carter, who made time for a cup of coffee during work hours.

The most enthusiastic of these was former President George H. W. Bush. Ten cups of coffee a day was Bush's ritual until he was admitted to hospital in 1991 with thyroid and heart abnormalities, when he had to cut back and avoid caffeine, switching to "decaf," and two weeks after he was discharged, Bush resumed drinking coffee because he couldn't stand "decaf" coffee "not real coffee."

The Clintons love lattes.

Coffee has also brought controversy to the president of the United States. Clinton held a fund-raising event during his presidency to drink coffee with the president in the White House, and US law prohibits the sale of admission tickets to the White House at any price. Later, one of the gifts given to Clinton by Lewinsky, who had an affair with Clinton, was a coffee cup. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton and Obama were vying for the Democratic nomination, Clinton, in an effort to win support from Senator Edward Kennedy, disparaged Obama in a conversation with Kennedy as "if a few years ago,[Obama] would have helped us get coffee."