“Wayne was an mans’ man, a foavorite of many leading ladies and perhaps the greatest conservative, save maybe Reagan.”
John Wayne was a great actor, but he avoided military service during WW2. Even some of his fellow actors gave him a hard time about it.
Jimmy Stewart was the real deal; a hero in all aspects of his life, and a great conservative. In the late 1950s Strategic Air Command nominated Colonel Stewart, USAF reserve, for an important staff job at headquarters in Omaha, and Stewart was willing to retire from movies to take it. But the Senate armed forces committee rejected the nomination, because they refused to take an actor seriously for an important job! SAC hadn’t nominated him as window dressing. Jimmy Stewart was admired and respected by the generals who led SAC.
I didn’t know this about Wayne. Yes, Jimmy Stewart was indeed a great American.