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Admittedly, even at the height of his populist fervor, Phillips had shown signs of distaste for certain aspects of middle-class culture. Explaining during the 1968 campaign why a Nixon endorsement by actor John Wayne would go over well among Southern voters, Phillips told reporter Joe McGinniss, "Wayne might sound bad to people in New York, but he sounds great to the schmucks we're trying to reach. ... The people down there along the Yahoo Belt." But, in his earlier books, Phillips always concealed any hint of such contempt.