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t 4 The Battalion Wednesday. August 22.1964 - Election 9 84 Presidency becoming impossible, prof soys • I i /Wl i'A i ToV m . , • SAN ANTONIO — The srmnef mcumkuM^ r * rcUo,, w ^ c *^ rr M ^ tenner Watorr (hr and He’» very powerful in gettmg through to Joe SnpaK k * > t^er. a reporter lot the CJIewe^ tend Amn Dealer and the Chicago I nbune m the hue 1950* and earfv i 9liO». doe* not blame the Media for heTCwin the pubhc’s perrepuon of theoflke '4k * ' ‘ J;. * ^ ' have aM hell fall m on them/* uad Traury Univerwty Prole—or Hamid Barger, a former newsman and po- htical wther ’'The roof wiN juat cave M.” la h— book. "The Impo—dde Pre ndency" (Scon Forewnan k Co., , $10 Mg. Barger argue» that no one can live up to the expectations of America’* ntgheat office, which hr dewnbed — illuMonao and en twined with myth*. *vmboh and ntu- For Barger, the nnted for such an impassible ofTice ■ Reagan "the perfect, gumte—en tial media president He makes (John F.) Kennedy a piker * Barger c alls Reagan a superb ac tor and refers to him as "President Feelgood * He give* the president low marks on the environment and foreign pohcv — cwng the Beirut nsassarre. (merat Aasencan pohcv, atutudes toward the Soviets and the mva—cju of Grenada, srhtch he dr- senbed as "more symbol than sub- "Our foreign pohcv has had no fo cus at all. but Reagan has made us feel like we’re standing tall again.' Barger said "American foreign pol icy has suffered great set hprki ” Reagan n a very nice guy. an in- < redibfv charming warm personal- *v," Barger said "But hi* bfe has been spent recreating images He I—b sfnsr nl the uurtd — and evil. He’s not a thinkei spectator sport." be said "The presi dency crease i unreahstac expecta Peoplr expect a god-hke ■MMh doesn't the office is." w«y. god never been the office it lo be The inderstand how weak I In fact. "The I dene v ' concludes that th— the ofTice ■ not as powerful as the public believei And Barger said the next presi dent — be « Reagan or Mondale — wiB not be able to < oofure "webbs of ferns are becoming so apparent "He (Reagan) will have a very hard tune m a second term A sec ond term wiB be hell." Barger pad "He mav be m for a real race " And he said Mondale, who dors me have Reagan s power of dtusion. wiB be unpopular, » one-term presi dent "I'm a real pessimist." admits Bar ger. who claims no American pre si dent can be efTecuve without a revi sion of the U.S constitution Rk hard Nixon was the last realty good, qualified president.* Barger asserts His demise was that he tried Vendors to ‘snag’ conventioneers to make the subvert the poder < < *« ■Sill work He had to ution to use the black and while, good not well read and he’s Barget claims that some of the grrasesi presidents — Abraham Lin coln. Harry T rumaa. Franklin Rooseveh — had to ssrp outside Con—nutional bounds lo be efiec- Dve "The president has to be a bas tard/* he said. Usto—I Pi sss IwWnmSMMMi DALLAS — Jim Johnston is uniquely wired lot the Republican National Convention Johnston creates novelties and ye we trv from barbed wire His com pany — "Texas Ptorties ’ — was the first in the nation to market gold plated wire swuale mk ks. Mill a hut aeBer in gift shops nine years later Hu firm also makes napkin rings, bracelets, lapel pins and bout tacks from the same plentiful wire, cre ating paraphernalia with which (((hnstnci hopes to snag*4tepuh!ican buyers. "Our first and best items are still the swizafe sucks.’’ be said “Fifty per* ent of our business <omes from tourists or peoplr outside of Texas Ihey want to take a bit of Texas home" Johnston. 45. has a degree in art advertising but quickly found he was nut the technician he needed to be. "So one day. I was fooling around with some antique barbed wire from my brother’s ranch, trying to figure out what to with it. when the idea came to gold plate H. Mv wife later suggested we chop the wire into small segments and sell the pieces as swizzle sucks." ihe business has grown larger the years. He now maxes a ty line of belt buckles for con tract customers aero— the nation The buckles retail for an average of $50 to $75 with the most expen sive 14-karat versions gom 4* for thousands of dollars. big spenders 'public an delu through specialty will arrive with the Republican deluge, he fig ures "But our primary market will not be for the big-time spenders We’re concentraung our efforts in the $20 range. Texas-oriented impulse One popular impulse item, he hopes, will be buckles carved with profiles of President Reagan and Vice President Bush The item will be featured in the GOP*s fund-raising catalog LOOKING FOR A PLACE WITH MORE ROOM TO CRIPPLE CREEK, SAUSALITO, SCANDIA,* SEVILLA. 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