But it's been going on longer than that.
Observe the process Ehrlichman and Nixon discussed:
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality.
NIXON: Huh?
EHRLICHMAN: It’s fatal liberality. And with its use on television, it has such leverage.
NIXON: You know what’s happened [in northern California]?
EHRLICHMAN: San Francisco has just gone clear over.
NIXON: But it’s not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can’t shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.
Decorators. They got to do something. But we don’t have to glorify it. You know one of the reasons fashions have made women look so terrible is because the goddamned designers hate women. Designers taking it out on the women. Now they’re trying to get some more sexy things coming on again.
EHRLICHMAN: Hot pants.
NIXON: Jesus Christ.
Well, it’s been popping for 2,000 year I’d say. But the decline of American culture from what it was in the 50’s and the 60’s; shoot even the 1970’s - is something else; but shouldn’t be unexpected, no.
Ah Bohemian Grove.
Now you might be accused of tinfoil.
Yeah, I also find Nixon’s comment on BG interesting. To say the least.