In addition to being a white supremacist, 

John Wayne was also a straight-up McCarthyite. 

In the Playboy interview, Wayne says: "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." And then there's Big Jim McLain: 

"In the post-war Hawaii, House Un-American Activities 

Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter 

hunt down Communists." (IMDB)