according to the interview with the lady, they called him BARRY on campus, not Barack.
“To Jack’s surprise, the future president, dressed in jeans and a shirt with sleeves rolled up, arrived with his own props, including a leather bomber jacket, a wide-brimmed Panama hat and a package of cigarettes.”
He had his own props?
That fits...
Looks like they should have called him Michael...Mr. Jackson if you’re nasty