Playboy Interview: Bob Hope

Playboy Interview: Bob HopeNo one--not even John Wayne and certainly not Richard Nixon--can lay a better claim to the title of Mr. America than a fast-talking, swoop-nosed comedian who wasn't even born in this country. And yet during the past 20 years, he has unquestionably become a national monument, instantly recognizable and beloved by Americans everywhere and, more significantly, a symbol to the outside world (and to some in this country) of the traditional American spirit--optimistic, energ...