“We made Nixon’s ‘hate list,’ which we held as a badge of honor and still do to this day, and the Vice President, Spiro Agnew, named us personally on national TV one night as ‘subversives to America’s youth.’ I mean, you can’t buy that kind of publicity.”
Well, now he can toke a few with Dick and Spiro and catch up.
It’s a famous song, but I never heard of these guys. I thought some more famous band made the record.
Spiro Agnew might have called it subversive and tried to have it banned from radio. I don’t know if he did or not. But they weren’t actually on the famous enemies lists (there were two lists).
In ‘68, 4th grade, we were running around the playground reciting:
“Marijuana, marijuana, LSD, LSD.
Mr. Nixon makes it,
Spiro Agnew takes it.
Why can’t we, why can’t we?”
Our baby sitters and teachers were from Berkeley East, University of Michigan.