You mean, like FDR, Harry S, Dwight D, John F and George W?
Would it imrpress you if I became Common F. Tator?
No. But I don' think there's much else you could do either.
He impressess the unknowing, ignorant and less bright. He does not impress much of anyone else.
Thanks you for speaking for the rest of us, but actually, I find Buckley an entertaining and insightful writer.
Right Dubya Professor.
FDR used his middle name Delano to convey to the world that he was descended from the Delano family. That was a distinct political advantage in New York when he ran for Governor. He never was addressed as Franklyn D. Roosevelt except for his political enemies. The people that hated FDR called him Franklyn D. Roosevelt. The same was true of Truman. H.V. Kaltenborn on NBC could say Harry S. Truman and make it sould like he said "Dirty M*ther F*cker" The S came out like the word "M*ther." The Delano was as important to Roosevelt as Fitzgerald was to Kennedy. It meant votes.
No one ever called Harry S. Truman, Harry S to his face. Not if He did not want to land hard on his a$$. He was Harry or Truman. He never used his S to impress people. His enemies called him that all the time.
The same way with IKE. Ike never presented himself as Dwight David Eisenhower or Dwight D. Eisenhower he was universally known as IKE. That is why people liked IKE. When the media wanted to trash him he was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Reporters that liked him called him IKE.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was never known as John F. Kennedy except by his poticical enemies. He used the Fitzgerald middle name so every voter in the House and Senate races of Mass was sure to know he was the grandson of that great vote getter and legendary Boston mayor Honey Fitzterald.
Repubicans liked to call him John F. Kennedy, but JFK tried to get people to call him Jack. Using a friendly first name and avoiding pretention is a way to get people to like you. Getting people to like you is the way you get elected and respected. That is why GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH likes people to call him Dubya. It makes him a nice guy. He earns respect by what he does not by trying to flaunt a prestigous initial.
George W used the Dubya to distinguish himself from the other George Bush who was in the same profession. He quickly turned that into a nickname of Dubya. Dubya does not have an inferiority complex. But no one in the white house could keep their job by introduding him as George Herbert Walker Bush. If NR employees don't call William F. Buckley Jr. William F. Buckley Jr. they would get their a$$ fired in a heart beat.