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==Character==
 
==Character==
 
Wayne was a lifelong conservative, endorsing for office [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Gerald Ford]], and fellow actor [[Ronald Reagan]].  He supported the effort in the [[Vietnam War]], and went so far as to make a pro-war film titled ''The Green Berets'' (1969)[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063035/], which irritated critics such as Roger Ebert who wrote: "What we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.... We need no more propaganda. But propaganda is what we get in 'The Green Berets,' a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023 The Green Berets], Robert Ebert's 1968 review</ref>
 
Wayne was a lifelong conservative, endorsing for office [[Barry Goldwater]], [[Richard Nixon]], [[Gerald Ford]], and fellow actor [[Ronald Reagan]].  He supported the effort in the [[Vietnam War]], and went so far as to make a pro-war film titled ''The Green Berets'' (1969)[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063035/], which irritated critics such as Roger Ebert who wrote: "What we certainly do not need is a movie depicting Vietnam in terms of cowboys and Indians.... We need no more propaganda. But propaganda is what we get in 'The Green Berets,' a heavy-handed, remarkably old-fashioned film."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19680626/REVIEWS/806260301/1023 The Green Berets], Robert Ebert's 1968 review</ref>
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.  He supported the soldiers who fought in the war and visited them on goodwill tours, and was a prominent invited gueat in [[Ross Perot]]'s 1973 “San Fransisco Party” for returned prisonors of war and the men who tried rescuing them in the abortive [[Son Tay raid]] of 1970.
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.  He supported the soldiers who fought in the war and visited them on goodwill tours, and was a prominent invited gueat in [[Ross Perot]]'s 1973 “San Fransisco Party” for returned prisonors of war and the men who tried rescuing them in the abortive [[Son Tay raid]] of 1970. Likewise, he was a proud white supremacist, who opposed black rule, stating in an interview with Playboy magazine, "With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people."
    
==Health==
 
==Health==
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