You lost me at "Vice President Richard Nixon"... I stopped reading your post after that..
Ever heard of LBJ ?
The whole county was in a deep mental depression until that February Sunday night on the Ed Sullivan Show when the Beatles appeared for the first time in 1964.I remember they announced it over the intercom at school, and we kids were sent home, the buses ran early that day.
My entire family grieved, and our world changed. That's when America really died.
I couldn't wait to graduate and get in the war - YEAH, right.
We were so innocent then.
Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with a revolver.
Revealed by playing the Beatles White Album backward.