{"id":78,"date":"2003-08-07T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2003-08-08T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-08-07T17:08:14","modified_gmt":"2003-08-08T00:08:14","slug":"tough-guys-real-and-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/07\/tough-guys-real-and-imagined\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Guys, Real and Imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F08%2F05%2Fwnoon05.xml&#038;secureRefresh=true&#038;_requestid=87104\" title=\"An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents\">An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents<\/a> turns up some interesting nuggets. Bill Clinton requested the shoot-out classic <i>High Noon<\/i> over 30 times while in the White House (because of its &#8220;strong-willed leader taking a situation of imminent danger into his hands &#8211; and winning&#8221;); George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;all-time favorite&#8221; is <i>Saving Private Ryan<\/i>. Dwight Eisenhower, supreme commander on D-Day, &#8220;refused to view war pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents turns up some interesting nuggets. Bill Clinton requested the shoot-out classic High Noon over 30 times while in the White House (because of its &#8220;strong-willed leader taking a situation of imminent danger into his hands &#8211; and winning&#8221;); George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;all-time favorite&#8221; is Saving Private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}