Beware of Acting Presidents

Jim Mason
2 min readJul 14, 2021

All politicians need positive images, but some are just actors

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Ronald Reagan was the first Acting President. He made his reputation as a movie and television actor and in television commercials, and he went on to use the images of the characters he played as his political image — the soft-spoken, straight-talking, modest (“aw shucks”) tough guy.

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Jim Mason

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