European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes wednesday March in. 1987 today s crossword Ifred Brand Vroonen just As everyone around the country As learning to pronounce his name. New York gov Mario Cuomo decided he was t going to try to gel to be president of the United states in my mind this decision made him the Man i d most like to have As my president. By declaring thai he would not run Tor the democratic nomination Cuomo has proven he is Wiser by far than All those candidates who arc going to run. Anyone who wants to be president of the United slates is crazy. We Don t want a crazy president it s that simple. What person in his right mind would want to Lake on the headaches that being president involves there s even a secret service mar outside the bathroom door. It s hard to know Why so Many people want to be president. Who has so much go that he thinks he has the brains or the ability to handle All the problem that come with the Job anyone who thinks he s that smart or that capable has the ego of a dictator. We Don t want anyone with a dictator s mentality. Who is so uncaring about his family his friends and his Money thai he s wilting to spend two Yean travelling making speeches and raising millions of dollars or other people s Money to spend on a Campaign which in he wins it will Only enable him to spend the next tour months after thai trying to beat the candidate of the other party even if i was sure i d end up with my face carved on mount Rushmore you could t make me run Tor president but that s exactly what i think we should do to Mario Cuomo. Make him run. I say Cuomo for president he has proven by declaring that he does t wan tit that he s the Best Man for the Job. Cuomo was even Good saying that he was t going to run. Reporters astred him to say exactly Why. He said he was thinking of his family which is the Stan Dard answer All politicians give to questions like that. He also said that it would be difficult for him to spend two years in Iowa and still run new York stale As governor. Nothing unusual there either but Hen Cuomo gave the kind of answer that makes him so interesting and unusual a politician. He said he could t Tell the reporters exactly Why he was t going to run. He told them there Are some ideas you can t put into words and it was some of these inexpressible things that had led him to say he would not be a candidate. He sounded very believable. We All do things we know Are right even though we d be unable to make a list of the reasons. You d think politicians would learn by studying a Little history that being president is nothing anyone should want to be if they want id live happily Ever after. How Many presidents Are happier after being in the Job than they were before they took it look what Happ Enslo them would a sensible person want to be run out of office in disgrace As Richard Nixon was would anyone want to become president and then in the eyes of the nation foil and not be re elected As Jimmy Carter was what America needs is More people who Don t want to be president for reasons they can t quite out their linger on. Trying to get to be president is a difficult and demeaning business and 1 Admire Mario Cuomo for not wanting to subject Hir Raulf to it c to taunt a Swetell / remember it was thursday. By Art Buchwald no matter what president Reagan says to win Back his popularity he will never convince the american people of his innocence until he remembers what he was doing on aug. A 1985. Not Only did Reagan insist that he could not recall whal he was doing then but he challenged every Man. Woman and child in the United states to remember what they were doing on that Day. Reagan has Lakin the position that As president he has the authority to forget anything we wants to. Privately he is going bonkers trying to remember what he was doing on that August Day. The other night tit dinner he said to Nancy Wail a minute it s coming to me. 1 know what i was doing. I was wind surfing on the Potomac with George Shultz. T remember it because he showed me his Tattoo Nancy said "1 saw the Tattoo too. Bui it was aug. 7." dam i know i was somewhere doing something. It s on the lip of my Ronnie you re fretting too much. People Don t care where you were on aug. S. They want you just As Long a you will be their Why Don t i Call Sam Donaldson and ask him if he shouted at me in the Rose Garden on aug. 8?" it would t mean anything. Sam shouts at you Ever time he sees you. Ronnie you have a lot to remember now without trying to recall what you were doing so Bui Nancy my whole credibility depends on it. How can a president maintain his popularity if he has no idea what he was doing in the heat of 1985?" Ronnie All the people want to know is when you of d the arms for it s not that easy. I la bet there in t one person in this country who can remember when they of d alarms shipment to it does t matter. What matters is where you keep the Button and How you push what Button i Don t know anything about a but ton. Have i got a Button Here somewhere who said anything about a Button Ronnie i wrote it All Down on your shirt cuff. The Button is under the dining room table next to your fool. You step on it once to launch an and out missile attack Onishe soviet Union and twice when you want the Butler to Clear the table. Can you remember Thal of course. That s something that stays in a presi Dent s mind forever. What Butler he Sims demo is an Wal birth. Is irs we. 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