President Nixon, Vice-President Agnew Ponder Causes of “Generation Gap”
Seeking to understand the so-called “generation gap,” which many people thought was a factor in anti-Vietnam War protests and the “youth subculture,” President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew on this day listened to “anti-establishment” rock music and viewed films of simulated LSD trips.
There is apparently no record of their music play list.
Nixon and Agnew simply could not understand that the anti-Vietnam War protests were inspired by the war, which included the horror of massive bombing on non-combatants, other human rights violations, and the fact that the security of the United States was not dependent on the outcome of what began as a civil war among Vietnamese people.
Learn more about the musical “threats” to America: Eric Nuzum, Parental Advisory: Music Censorship in America (2001)
Watch a documentary on the 1967 Summer of Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlxHJGD4ULg
Read the 2018 Pew Research Center report on the political generation gap in the decade of the 2010s
Learn more about “generational cycles” in American politics, from 1952 to 2016 here