Update — The Western Boot

The article The Boot in Popular Culture gains two new passages, from the screen to the Oval Office.

• From the Western to the Screen: the "John Wayne toe" — the square toe John Wayne ordered from Lucchese in 1951, and the tan boots Clint Eastwood wore in Leone's Westerns, shot in Andalusia, Spain.

• The Presidential Boot: a Symbol of Identity — from Lyndon B. Johnson to George W. Bush, when the Texan boot became a political marker — right down to "BOTUS," the bootmaker who has shod seven presidents.

✦ From the screen to the Oval Office, the western spirit keeps writing itself.