The El Presidente is a Cuban cocktail made of rum, orange curaçao, vermouth, and grenadine.

One story is that it was American bartender Eddie Woelke, who named it after Gen. Menocal after moving to Havana.

Another claim is that it was invented as early as 1915 in Cuba, 5 years before Woelke set foot on the Malecón in 1920.

[4] This premise if true is even further debated, as either being invented at the Vista Alegre (a Havana establishment frequented by Americans), or by President Menocal himself.

This may be the reason that Pan Am served a variation of El Presidente, known as the clipper cocktail, on their larger planes.