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>> hes been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. hes got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock n roll star. >> it sounded like rock n roll. guitars and big drums and everybody singing along. thats what everybody liked about rock shows. >> as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that just expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks & dunn, plenty of acts really worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years, country musi...

>> how things get out of hand. >> by jfk, by lbj, by nixon, by kissen jer. >> and the seeds of the polarization, right? >> but the seeds of the polarization, people dont trust their government anymore. anything goes back there. i made the comment back in 94 when i was campaigning after knocking on three or four doors. everybody is either on jane fondas side or john waynes side. it brought those two sides together and you would have soldiers crying about what happened. you would have war proteste...

44 miles per hour. giving her high profile clients. >> marlon brando, john wayne. >> jon: marilyn monroe as i understand. >> if you were an a-lister you were there. president eisenhower, truman and kennedy and bill clinton going over to europe when he was a rhodes scholar traveled on this ship as a kid. it has seen more passenger than any other vessel. >> jon: it was a symbol of american inbegin yu tee, prestige and pride and to protect the nation to gave her her name if necessary. >> it was a t...

I campaigned for congress. every door you knocked on somebody was either on the side of john wayne or jane fonda. that was in 1994. in 2017 that split is even more dramatic. >> but, joe, youre talking about georgia and i just saw a poll of president trumps approval rating in georgia that it was in the mid-30s, i believe. >> 37%. >> exactly. which is incredible considering it is georgia. there should be no question that a republican president one year in is pretty popular in georgia. and i think ...

Shovel. abc said this kind of comment raised eyebrows. i like that phrase. it raised eyebrows. >> dana: is like saying its interesting. i love that his name is john wayne. he was meant to be a soldier. i cant believe people complained about this. >> greg: its news, thats whats interesting to me. oh, my god. >> dana: abc picked it up. i would love to ask the isis guys what they thought of when they were raping women, they are extremely traumatized and trying to get their lives together. >> greg: ...

Doesnt see im risking my life to try to stop the bombing and bring democracy to the country. but he was still buying into everything. the men that were his colleagues were people in the state department who were actually loving the whole scene of the danger, the risk, the adventure almost like being in a john wayne movie or something like that. >> i think a lot of people want to join the marines to see if theyre up to it. never been able to throw a hard ball. couldnt play with guns. i wanted to ...

>> so did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne? my parents chose john wayne. and therefore, they were for nixon and nixon was on the side of law and order. ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever ♪ more than ever we need nixon ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever ♪ more than ever ♪ more than ever we need nixon now ♪ ♪ nixon now ♪ more than ever >> nixons law and order platform was very popular. in the coming election he seemed a shoo-in for a s...

Loud, frequent, and sometimes violent protests. largely against the vietnam war. >> it really did seem like the world was unraveling, growing up in a suburban existence with parents who saw chicago in 1968 erupt into flames, saw people burning their draft cards, saw a sexual revolution, saw a drug revolution, saw woodstock come into their homes. >> when i joined the nixon white house, there were a lot of demonstrations against the war. it probably was some of the most intense times i think our c...

And we knew that we were going to have to protect the white house. there was a lot of discussion about using troops, directly facing the demonstrators, which i felt could lead to direct confrontations and conflicts. and so it came to me, why dont we do what john wayne did, lets just circle the white house. with buses. not wagons but with buses. which is what we did. >> so did you want to be on the side of jane fonda or john wayne? my parents chose john wayne. and therefore, they were for nixon a...

>> hes been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. hes got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock and roll star. >> it sounded like rock and roll. guitars and big drums, and everybodys singing along. thats what everybody liked about rock shows. >> as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that just expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks & dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. >> over the last two years country music ...