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Initech

(100,068 posts)
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 06:53 PM Jul 2014

In honor of the late great James Garner - favorite fake president from a movie / book / series?

He was the democratic president in the 1996 flick "My Fellow Americans" opposite Jack Lemmon's Republican president.

My pick would be him, or maybe Dennis Haysbert's David Palmer from 24.

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In honor of the late great James Garner - favorite fake president from a movie / book / series? (Original Post) Initech Jul 2014 OP
President Lonestar from that 4th of July movie. Iggo Jul 2014 #1
Jed Bartlett from The West Wing Fortinbras Armstrong Jul 2014 #2
Yes...yes... dixiegrrrrl Jul 2014 #3
Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon was pretty good. Gidney N Cloyd Jul 2014 #4
Ronald Reagan.... whistler162 Jul 2014 #5
President Jordan Lyman from Fletcher Kneble's "Seven Days in May" Rowdyboy Jul 2014 #6
Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe SwankyXomb Jul 2014 #7
i forgot he was in that movie. i loved it. trueblue2007 Jul 2014 #8

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
3. Yes...yes...
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 07:40 PM
Jul 2014

But the credit has to go to Sorkin's writing of the series.

I STILL haul out my copy of the series when the outside world seems too insane.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,834 posts)
4. Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon was pretty good.
Sun Jul 20, 2014, 08:13 PM
Jul 2014

Kind of a whacked-out, poll-obsessed, ethics-unencumbered GHWB.

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