In a novel, a stand-in for this real-life person works as a night manager at the Orpheus Theatre and crusades against the harmonica players who are hurting his business. After meeting this person as a girl, Tricia writes a letter to him “in hell” (15[1])in the first story of a 2022 collection by Gish Jen. This person mocks (15[1])the smoking habit of his “youth affairs” expert Walter F. Starbuck in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Jailbird. This person’s one-word question “What?” serves as the (15[2])(*) epigraph (10[3])for the final section (10[2])of Gravity’s (10[1])Rainbow. (10[1])This person urges a crowd to “drop [their] pants for America” (-5[1])and is sodomized by Uncle Sam in the novel The Public Burning. In Watchmen, (10[1])this person (10[1])serves five (10[1])straight terms (10[3])after (10[2])Doctor Manhattan wins him a war. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this president whose reelection bid is detailed in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail (10[1])’72. ■END■