Good post about the Duke. He would be politically incorrect today and I'd go for that.
Some of the things that he mentioned about his dad showed up in one of his best, IMO, movies, The Shootist. Another good movie was The Quiet Man
The closest one today like the Duke might be Tom Selleck. Selleck doesn't say much though.
I'm a huge Tom Selleck fan since his Magnum PI days, especially since he really is a Detroit Tiger Fan. Perhaps a closer anology to the Duke is Clint Eastwood who will speak out from time to time. However in truth there is only one John Wayne.
Nice find Jersey Mike. I read a few pages before being called away. Will read the rest soon. Somewhere in my past I have read this before. I can not recall when, I suspect in my college days in mid to late 70s. When Maureen O'Hara passed last fall and we talked about these two I found a few taped interviews by him. When talking about the liberal redistribution schemes he said put 20 people in a room and give them all 1 dollar. Then come back in a year ( I would say a couple of days ) and one of the people will have the majority of that money. The world has always been this way and always will.
Chuck
