Consider chugging one for the Gipper this afternoon. Thirty-three years ago Monday, President Reagan yielded to peer pressure and, using the power of the federal purse-strings, forced the states to play the worst drinking game of all time.

With Mothers Against Drunk Driving cheering him on, Reagan signed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, challenging states to increase the drinking age to 21 or lose 10 percent of federal highway construction funds.