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The Last Cowboy President?

by | May 1, 2008 | Features & Gunfights

How U.S. Presidents have recreated themselves as cowboys since the turn of the 20th century.
Lyndon B. Johnson compared going to Vietnam’s aid to coming to the aid of the defenders at the Alamo. Leonid Brezhnev derided Ronald Reagan as a global cowboy in 1981 (the Cold War Soviet leader did not like the “Great Communicator’s” plan to arm Afghan rebels fighting Soviet occupation). Our current president George W. Bush


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