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Show Clean blue jeans ... nice smile President Jimmy Carter Is the kind of guy almost any parent would want his daughter to marry. And certainly Rosalyn did alright with him. Much to-do has been made over the fact that they walked the inaugural route to prove that a president was again safe in America. Well, who can get mad at a guy that smiles all the time. The last president that could smile was Ike. He charmed his way through a couple of wars, Korea and two terms in the White House. Kennedy could laugh when he first went went to the white house, but when he tried to smile, his lip curled into a sneer. Johnson's smile was the toothless grin of a centenarian. He smiled with his eyes, and I was never sure whether he was smiling or laughing at me. Harry Truman really haw-hawed, but h is smile was fixed and the only way you could tell if it was sincere was by looking in his eyes. His smile was a delaying tactic while he thought up his next quip. His tongue was so sharp -he didnt have to smile. Roosevelt (FDR) enjoyed the dry humor of New England and like Kennedy was rarely able to show his pleasure openly. But Carter's smile is infectious. He can hardly turn it off when he is trying to be serious. He's got the type of smile that let's him tell you inflation is going to cut your dollar in half next year, and m ake you like it. He could double your rent and have you reaching for your wallet six months before it came due. Certainly, that smile is safe in a Hong Kong bar. He could walk the streets of the Barbary Coast with immunity. Even the streets of Wash-Inton, Wash-Inton, D.C . are beguiled when he wrinkles his n .e. But Levis are another matter. What's Brezhnev going to think when he shows up at a summit meeting in Levis and a sweater. Will the big four shuck top hats for a casual suit of denim. Can foreign policy be influenced by Pepsodent and blue denims? "Red" |