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The Battalion
Wednesday. August 22.1964
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Election 9 84
Presidency becoming
impossible, prof soys
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SAN ANTONIO — The srmnef
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tenner Watorr
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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 * '
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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
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