This is a very unforgiving country. As I recall, Wallace's best friend in his later years was a black man (minister?).
“Now Watergate does not bother me..”
Me neither, Ronnie.
Never did.
Watergate was a total propaganda media event driven by the Democrat Congress and their close allies in the media. Payback for Richard Nixon’s earlier HUAC activities.
As Ann Coulter has pointed out, Watergate was a minor event compared to some of the business-as-usual-shenanigans of the Democratic administrations of Kennedy and Johnson.
Leftist music critics have opined that Ronnie van Zandt was in fact distancing himself from the policies of George Wallace in the great southern anthem, Sweet Home Alabama.
Maybe. But then again, maybe not