My grandfather always told me that it is no good lying on a hospital bed saying, 'I had the right of way',. . . That's one of the reasons I was so pleased that the boys could do the IAM test as well.
There is no other genre that deals with America better, in a subtextual way, than the Westerns being made in the different decades. The '50s Westerns very much put forth an Eisenhower idea of America, whereas the Westerns of the '70s were very cynical about America.