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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 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 (*) epigraph (10[1])for the final section (10[1])of Gravity’s Rainbow. This person urges a crowd to “drop [their] pants for America” and is sodomized by Uncle Sam in the novel The Public Burning. In Watchmen, this person serves five (10[1])straight terms after Doctor Manhattan wins him a war. For 10 points, name this president whose reelection bid is detailed in Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. ■END■

ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon] (The first sentence refers to Richard M. Zhlubb from Gravity’s Rainbow. The Gish Jen collection is Thank You, Mr. Nixon.)
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