In 1970, Orson Welles released a spoken word album titled The Begatting of the President, a satirical recitation in Bible-speak of LBJ's fall and the rise of Nixon. (The recording is on YouTube.)
The script, which is available on Wikipedia, was written by Myron Roberts, Lincoln Haynes and Sasha Gillien. Listening to the 28-minutes recording of the political machinations between and among Democrats and Republicans shows, once again, that there is nothing new under the sun.
We've been a hot mess for quite a while.
This ad for the album ran in an August edition of the Los Angeles Free Press.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRZZSFv83jI
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