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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>
. 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.
. He supported the soldiers who fought in the war and visited them on goodwill tours, and was a prominent invited guest 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.
==Health==
==Health==