Nah... that happened years earlier. My day of infamy was the night Wally Crankedtite announced his powers on CBS to end the Vietnam war by surrendering...
Uncle Walter. You know he made up that "most trusted man in America" with a roomful of Walter Durant type "journalists" engaging in a late night "brainstorming" session".
In retrospect it's been going on a lot longer than we think.
One thing I still love about the old timers, right and left, is that when they got together they drank whiskey and strong coffee and smoked tobacco, not pizza and power drinks like the modern pols and propagandists.