Saw Dead And Company the other weekend. Have to add Bob Weir (and, really, all the surviving Grateful Dead members) as a national treasure, pushing eighty and still playing three+ hour shows. To paraphrase the old saw about Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, these guys have been doing everything Jerry Garcia did….for almost twice as long now!
Steven Spielberg for the US.
Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Iñárritu for Mexico.
She has retreated from the public eye in recent years, but Oprah Winfrey would qualify, imho.
Has she spoken out about Dr. Oz yet? She really needs to condemn his nutty views at this point. He’s potentially leading in a senate race.
She has:
One of the great things about our democracy is that every citizen can decide to run for public office,” Winfrey said in a statement to the magazine. “Mehmet Oz has made that decision. And now it’s up to the residents of Pennsylvania to decide who will represent them.”
Someone mention Ric Flair above but I wouldn’t regard him as a “national treasure”. He has too much negative “baggage” associated with him
As a pro wrestling fan I think wrestlers thought as “national treasures” would be:
United States Terry Funk, Mick Foley, The Undertaker
Mexico Mil Mascaras, El Hijo del Santo, Konnan
Japan Antonio Inoki, The Great Muta,