John Wayne, Playboy interview,1971

A Great American Icon

 

I remember sitting on the couch next to Poppy, every Saturday afternoon, watching old black and white (and sometimes color!) John Wayne movies. I never really understood Poppy's fascination, almost a "man crush" on Mr. Wayne,  but I did enjoy the movies. The more I read about him, the more I learn of his beliefs, the more I understand. Stumbled across the reprint of his Playboy interview this morning, and he was a visionary.

“Well, the liberals seem to be quite willing to have Communists teach their kids in school. The Communists realized that they couldn’t start a workers’ revolution in the United States, since the workers were too affluent and too progressive. So the Commies decided on the next-best thing, and that’s to start on the schools, start on the kids. And they’ve managed to do it. They’re already in colleges; now they’re getting into high schools. I wouldn’t mind if they taught my children the basic philosophy of communism, in theory and how it works in actuality. But I don’t want somebody like Angela Davis inculcating an enemy doctrine in my kids’ minds.” ~ John Wayne

Read the whole interview HERE, there's a link at the bottom that takes you to the full text. It's several pages long, but well worth the time.