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Yes.

He's an effective President in terms of communicating to the American people things that might be more difficult for others in that position. Certainly, he's more effective in communication and influence on the American people than Jimmy Carter was. This effectiveness to me combines or is a result of his ability to combine what ideas he has personally with his background and experience as an actor. So, then they become one. They meshed. As I watch him on television my interpretation is that I see both coming out and blending sufficiently to cause reporters to be immobilized, unable to pursue sometimes flagrant inconsistencies in what he has been saying in the same--[pauses].

Dr. Clark, you've lived through the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt--

I sure have.

Dwight Eisenhower, as well as these others. Have you ever speculated or hypothesized that in political behavior, not issues, position, or vision toward social questions, that Ronald Reagan may have considered Franklin Roosevelt a role model in certain respects, and Dwight Eisenhower in other respects?

Franklin Roosevelt in the respect of effective communication, without television, by the way, on the part of Franklin Roosevelt.