Don’t forget that “B” movie Hollywood personality who was supporting actor to a chimpanzee in “Bedtime For Bonzo”.
He later narrated a half-hour, short lived, cheezey black & white TV western, “Death Valley Days”, and was featured in every episode alongside a team of twenty mules pulling a wagon load of the soap making ingredient, borax, across a barren, tumbleweed strewn desert. Yessirree Bob, a real presidential character making real presidential appearances with real gravitas.
BTW, that “Death Valley Days” guy was replaced by an unnamed narrator known simply as “The Old Timer”, a grey-bearded, dusty behatted, toothless guy who, by comparison would have made Gabby Hayes look like Clark Gable. Yep! real, real presidential that Ronald Reagan.