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...Aw Shucks...
...Aw, piece of cake...
...pearl-and-diamond clasps, and wearing a stunning beaded, one-shoulder James Galanos gown, stayed at her husband's side as they visited all ten balls. At a few stops, Reagan spoke of the hostages-"prisoners of war," he purposefully called them-but generally he kept to an aw-shucks-so-glad-you're-here routine. Said he to guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans danced, at last, at their eighth stop, the party in the ornate...
David Hartman, ABC'S Mr. Aw Shucks, an ex-TV actor (Lucas Tanner) with the gentle smile and careworn countenance of a kindly uncle...
...press, in Barber's view, is to plumb a candidate's background and his knowledge of the facts, the press did that job well with Reagan. He was not so much unknown as too simply perceived. The press had to get past Reagan's aw-shucks actor's persona and also avoid another parody-the straw-filled scarecrow wild man the Carter people created. Reporting gave the voters a plausible portrait of a 9-to-5 executive, only passably informed, given to exaggerated remarks but cautious in action, who wants complicated problems reduced to Reader...