Nice:
Coverage of 9/11 and its aftermath consumed all else for reporters in Washington. As federal officials scrambled to avert the much-feared "second wave" of attacks, reporters likewise scrambled to follow any hint of the next possible attack and to put it on the front page—from scuba divers off the coast of Southern California to hazmat trucks in the Midwest and tourist helicopters in New York City. One example of the shift: On Sept. 12, 2001, another major newspaper was set to run a story on the extraordinary diplomatic maneuverings the U.S. Secret Service had arranged with their Mexican counterparts to allow Jenna Bush, then 19, to make a barhopping trip south of the border. (She had just been charged with underage drinking in Texas.) A few days earlier, a scoop about a presidential daughter's barhopping trip getting special dispensation from the Secret Service and a foreign government might have gotten heavy treatment. But the story never ran, and the Secret Service's maneuverings remained a secret until now. In the weeks and months after 9/11, there was no longer an appetite for such stories.
Maybe a reporter could ask George W. Bush if he supports the drinking age of 21 in the US for everyone, or just everyone else
I’m pretty sure there’s no federal law or jurisdiction over drinking age. That’s set by each state, and, to a lesser extent, by the congress appropriations committee that doles out highway funding.
National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 sets a de facto federal drinking age of 21. You can argue on the letter of the law that it does not, but that was its clearly intended and actual effect