This time, he merely sat in his palace, drinking beer and eating a lot of charcuterie.

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Which is why drinking beer and then joking about it at a company meeting to build camaraderie with his employees makes perfect sense.

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Rusk, 67, a former machinist and painter who admitted on a 1992 medical exam to drinking a six-pack of beer a day and occasionally using "amphetamine and IV crank, " blamed his shortness of breath on brake pads even though he worked part-time as a car mechanic and started smoking in 1951.

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