From PRX

This is Studio 360.

I'm Curtis, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

This first level of garden.

This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.

I like to have the roasted chicken base.

Very well done.

Editing is all about timing.

I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.

You must get sick of your own voice, right?

Studio 360.

It's Kurt Anderson.

Colonel Thursday, I gave my word to coaches.

No man is going to make a liar out of me, sir.

That's John Wayne, of course, in one of the many westerns he made with the director John Ford.

There's no question of honor, sir, between an American officer and Cochies.

There is to me, sir.

Together, Ford and John Wayne, they kind of have to say his whole name, made more than a dozen films

and created this archetypal persona. Much more than just a movie cowboy. John Wayne came to

represent an idea of American masculinity, an ideal to which lots of men aspired. But as really masterful, as many of Ford's John Wayne

Westerns are, 60 and 70 and 80 years later, there are also troubling aspects to some. So,

what should we here in the 21st century make of them? Which brings us to the latest installment in our American icon series.

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