European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday. October 25, 1985 a in b Al cent. Ronald Reagan and pal o Brien appear together in Knole Klekne. All american in Umi Ion pm Mol and in i98�irrrcmnmcs Al Noire panic where the race died honorary degrees. It you think Reagan is bad. By Baker when people Iri Lici a i re Sidcot Sci pain. I reply name a Nnnie a Lur you d ruler have in the White Tia takes the Sicam out of them. Of. Sure somebody Alwais says. Jimmy sle Warl i think Jimmy so cart would be a lot but that s irrelevant Beau in Jimmy would never have taken the Job. Though his name was of ten mentioned. b. Mayer the Boss or mom knew thai. In fact he told the Warner Brothers i it sit Down in a Neutral studio that Jimmy Stewart would never accept the Job acc Siulc the country will always need him to lend a Friendly hand to All presidents regardless of party when they mess up and to persuade them not to give up when the world situation look Short la .s.s," that Assurance Musl have made the Warner Brothers Bra Lac More easily for hitherto secret studio document now circulating in Beverly Hills reveal thai they had a candidate oath Crown Allen Jenkins. Jenkins was a Warner Bros character actor whose film roles according to movie trivia mania published by Public Caliuis International Ltd. Generally fell Inlo the half witted criminal when Mayer questioned whether that was really the linage Hollywood wanted to put in the White House the Warner Brothers noted thai Jenkins also played mugs police men cab Drivers and bartenders and was a Good Friend of Jimmy Cagney and Spencer Tracy. Come off it you Guys Mayer is said to have yelled at Tewarner Brothers. We re talking about finding an actor who can go up against Franklin Roosevelt at the polls Allen Jen Kins could l beat Herbert 1 he upshot seems to have been a Compromise under which Mayer agreed of support he Warners in making Pat o brie the first movie actor president if the Warners would cast o Brien in a few starring roles to display the Quality of his presidential Limber. The first of these vehicles was China made in 1936. I assembled a Small group of persons who constantly Carp at president Reagan darkened the room and gave them a dose of what might have been i at o Brien As chief executive not of the United be sure but of an Ameri can company pioneering a trans Pacific air route Lochinaw. When the Hghes went up again they agreed Icv had Bee Lucky to gel Reagan for their first movie actor president. Life in the United Stales under an o Brien administration Wouldhave been heavy going. Tor one thing in China o a Rich never merely spoke to anyone. He always barked the Way a quarterback barks signals to a football team. I la say this for president Cogan i be never addresses the nation As if it were six tons of beef Grenlin Govora pigskin. Barking was not the worst liability of the o Brien candidacy. His ruthless Ness in discarding his wife because he cared More for his Job getting an air plane to China suggest Dan insensitive Mon maniac. Then in arc was old you and 1, watching the movie can Sec thai old dad Henry b. Wall Hall is sick and ought to be furloughed. O Brien could not Sec that. I in drove old dad to his death from overwork designing a w ing a satisfy finicky government air safety bureaucrats. A Man with the slightest Knol of presidential Timber would have put old dad in a soft Job requiring lots of slow travel in the Coconut Bell and got the finicky bureaucrats replaced by sensible bureaucrats who Don t think its government s Job to hamstring business. The worst count against o Brien As potential president of the United states though was his inability to surround him self with compel Cal people. Skill Al identifying Quality help is essential to presidential Success. Poor o Brien s Lack of it was ludicrously obvious. Right under his nose playing a medium sic supporting role was Humphrey Bogart. Admittedly it was Only 1936. And Lew people that year could have guessed How stunningly competent Bogart truly was. Bui then in 19so, How Many of us inc about he Mecir Reagan had the presidential Knack of spoiling the supporting Plajer needed Todd the Job. If o Brien had enjoyed that Knack he would have put Bogart in charge of getting the plane to China. Bogart would have sent him to the ranch to vacation and make things up Wilh his wife Wilh o Brien vacationing. Bogart would have got the plane to China and thus o Brien would have become so beloved for reducing the National Barking level Llinat height have beaten for in 1936. 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