European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 9, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sidelights i Folk remember the nationwide Repe Renkum  week Abo to select a new Resh of q6ntial. Icon a h Quot masked reapers to choose Between these to finalists. 11 Fly Quot a z a fee a. Toy. A. A a i the reapers have spoken with a Roar / so without any further the doonesbury strip of aug. 22 introduces a presidential breakfast. Politicians draw food for thought from cartoonist by James Barron new York times. Sorry doonesbury president Clinton is not the first world Leader to be caricatured As a breakfast food. A Century and a half ago the much hated King Louis Philippe of. France was savaged As an overripe Pear. The image stuck and in French Quot Pearl became a Slang for a  \ for 10 Days in late summer the comic strip Don and shiny portrayed the president As a breakfast Waffle. Straight cornered not soggy from syrup the Wattle chatted with a Well dressed aide who appeared to be Joshua Steiner the Treasury depart. Mint Wundt kind who disavowed his damaging diary about the Whitewater affair. A Ever since the 19th-Century cartoonist Thomas Nast pinned the Donkey on the democrats and the elephant  the republicans cartoonists have Badii. Mapping the iconography of american politics. But Lood ? drawing the president As a Waffle seems like an All american update of the 1942 comedy to be or not to lie. A a. A a. A in a scene with Jack Benny one character of. Serves that a herring had been named after German Chancellor Bismarck and a Brandy after Napoleon. And there a  dish that was named after the Duke of Wellington. When George Bush was in the White House doonesbury showed him As a vanishing Point of Light poking fun at a presidential program intended to Reward volunteers. Vice president Dan Quayle was depicted As a Feather. As for Clinton Garry Trudeau who draws Down Asbury invited readers to choose a Symbol a a flipping Coin or a Waffle. A week later the Waffle appeared a a. A a �.���. A Trudeau a first Waffle was not the first Waffle however. Signe Wilkinson the cartoonist for the Philadelphia daily news showed Clinton As the proprietor of International House of waffling in april. Quot there Are Only so Many images to go around a said Wil Kirsop who won the pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning iril992. Quot put 100 cartoonists in a. Room and say a Bill Clinton changes his mind and probably 75 of them would say Waffle you re trying to  the idea of flip flopping but there has to be a  a a then there was new Yorkus Boss Tweed he Wasny to a president but after Nast began depicting his corrupt tammany machine As a hungry Tiger devouring no a York Tweed bellowed Quot Stop them Damn  v Quot / but not just yet. Historians biographers cartoonists and comedians were asked recently How they would draw a sampling of presidents a if they could draw. Here Are the images they chose George Washington Dorothy Twohig director and editor of the papers of George Washington Quot Oatmeal or Hominy grits. Because they re Down to Earth arid he had no Teeth and they re the simple kind of things people ate in the 18th Century or maybe Cape a crunch because he had a military career. But he might have had trouble  Harry Truman David Mccullough author Truman a Harry tru. Man was a Swallow of wild Turkey reliable bracing and very american Strong with character 100 proof the real thing. And  Ever took a sip lie  in feb amp Al coverage orm Hing Okay 90%f i can by Barm 70%, John Kennedy Richard Reeves author president Kennedy profile of Power. Quot a pair of aviator sunglasses. There was something dashing and glamorous about them but you also did no to know what was going on behind. A them.�?�. A a a a. A Abraham Lincoln Carol Leifer comedian Quot a Black Bic pen. The Cap looks like a stovepipe hat and he was tall and thin and he signed the emancipation proclamation. Even in the Lincoln memorial for such a beloved president he looks so miserable you feel like handing him a six pack and saying a hey Abe Lincoln its Miller  a Richard Nixon James Shenton professor of history Columbia University a a Glass of Grapefruit juice sour but invigorating. When Nixon was at his most sour he was the most interesting. A a in be always regarded Grapefruit juice As a great dentifrice. Ttys the Only Way you can actually have your breakfast juice and clean your Teeth without much of an Effort. That a what i think of when i think of,Nixon.�?� a. A a a Woodrow Wilson August Heckscher author Woodrow Wilson a a  grape nuts they Are hard and crackly and Good for the health. Wilson was a hard Man to Deal with. He had his own ideas and he carried them out rigidly. He Wasny to an easy Man to caricature. Wilson himself used to joke about his Lack of Good looks. Fie had a Limerick a my face i done to mind it because in a behind it its the people out front that i  a Jimmy Carter Pat Oliphant syndicated cartoonist a a can of spinach you done to expect much but he turned out to be a better president out of office than he was in of lice. When he was president the Way i Drew him he got smaller and smaller and smaller. His feet did no to. Touch the floor. And the Teeth. He changed the part of his hair  he tried to talk without showing. His  a. ,. This is Poland Hepley Tovay Pup no a live press conference on Whitewater the pres pent unexpected by recuse himself White House p0ct0r5 say or Clinton suffer rep no he effects and 7he presi vent  to the Oval office with Whitewater at least temporarily behind him or. Clinton spent there Mas per of the pay with Secretary Christopher conducting foreign policy let s invade Haiti let s Rome the serbs doonesbury dishes it out a gain on aug. 27. I.  pages. Sunday october 9. 1994