1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Blood on the Tracks is a production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. John Lennon was a musical genius 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,479 Speaker 1: and one of the most beloved cultural figures of the 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 1: twentieth century. His songs inspired dreamers to imagine, his search 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: for the truth gave power to the people. But some 6 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: thought he dreamed too much. Others thought he was too powerful. 7 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 1: So he was followed, he was threatened, he was declared 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:30,000 Speaker 1: a danger to the United States, and in night he 9 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: was assassinated. This is his story told by his so 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: called friends. This especial agent Jim Steele with the Federal 11 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigation work in case number double oh nine 12 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: dash zero eight dash zero four nine one. Case subject 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: is Lennon, John Winston on no. This information pertains to 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 1: a period ending August seventy four. Interview subject is Nixon 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: Richard Millhouse interview number zero dash aid zero dash December. 16 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: I do not consider myself to be anything but an 17 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:24,040 Speaker 1: average person. None of us should, really, although we all 18 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: think we're a little smarter than we actually are to 19 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: be at the unhappiest people in the world are people 20 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: on the self coase To Ference in Newport and Palm 21 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,280 Speaker 1: Springs and Palm Beach, going to parties every night, playing 22 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: golf and then bridge, drinking too much, talking too much, 23 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: thinking too little, no purpose. I feel the life of 24 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: our purpose, life in which an individual is forced to 25 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: go against his intuition about what he thinks he ought 26 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: to do. That's where life becomes almost unbearable, not having 27 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: anything to look for. It could be a dur an experience. 28 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 1: It may have looked like Johnny and believe in the 29 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: courage of his convictions. But I believe he was forced 30 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: to go against his intuition. He didn't know what he 31 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:16,080 Speaker 1: was doing. What makes life means something? This purpose a gold, 32 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: a battle, a struggy even if you don't win it, 33 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:24,799 Speaker 1: even if when you look back on the path you 34 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: took to arrive at the end of That's drubble, all 35 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: you could see is bought on the tracks h Chapter two. 36 00:02:53,760 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: John Lennon and Richard Nixon. I think it's only human 37 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: nature to be myopic. We see things how we want 38 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: to see them. We remember things the way we thought 39 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:19,639 Speaker 1: they happened. So of course it's only natural that when 40 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 1: you think about me and my presidency and my legacy, 41 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: there are things that immediately come to your mind. There's 42 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 1: a narrative, and in that narrative, I'm either a crook 43 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 1: or a villain, or some sort of metaphorical blight on 44 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: the history of our great country. Offered were a little smartly. 45 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: I'm an adjective now Nicksonian. And believe me when I 46 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 1: tell you that resigning the opposite of the president was 47 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: incredibly difficult. You can't begin to imagine how difficult it was. 48 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: I felt like I had no purpose. That's from words 49 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 1: people's able should burrow. The history was truly written by 50 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: the victors, and I believe that it is well. The 51 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: victors are just as myopic as any of us. The 52 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: victors don't remember the remarkable things that I was able 53 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: to accomplish as president, the things my administration accomplished. We 54 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: extended the Voting Rights Act, We signed the Clean Air 55 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: Act into law and the Water Pollution Control Act. We 56 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 1: established the Environmental Protection Agency for crying out aloud, We 57 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: made diplomatic progress with Moscow and Beijing. We wanted to 58 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:31,040 Speaker 1: bring the Cold War to an end. We set up 59 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: an Office of Consumer Affairs in the White House, expanded 60 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: the National Park System, created OSHA, reduced the voting age 61 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: to eighteen and dramatically increased funding to the arts and 62 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: public broadcasting. Not Kennedy, not Johnson. My administration history is 63 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,839 Speaker 1: to find me not as a progressive, but as a boogeyman. 64 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: They've been calling me tricky dick for years, ever since 65 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,799 Speaker 1: the election in nineteen fifty when I became a state senator. 66 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: When I was president, I brought massive health care reform 67 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: at the table, and you know what happened. The Democrats 68 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: have posted I'm talking sweeping reform, the very kind of 69 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,239 Speaker 1: reform that the Democrats have been fighting for for years. 70 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: I gave it to them on a silver platter. But 71 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: they didn't want it because it came from me, a Republican, sure, 72 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: and not just any Republican, but the Republican who had 73 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: been beaten in the past by Kennedy and that many 74 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: saw as a prior. That's politics, and especially in politics, 75 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: people put other people into these predefined boxes, and you 76 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: can't ever change because if you change, then you're betraying 77 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: the confines of that little box, thereby betraying what has 78 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: been defined as you. Now, maybe my own view of 79 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: John Lennon was myopic thing what an average person. Maybe 80 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 1: I put him in a box based on who or 81 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: what I thought it was. But you must remember this 82 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 1: is a very turbulent time in America's history. The radical 83 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:12,279 Speaker 1: left was encouraging the masses that kildnap ambassadors to hijack 84 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: planes to blow up buildings as protest. So many planes 85 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: were hijacked in the late sixties in early seventies at 86 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: the Secret Service forbade my family from flying on any 87 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: commercial airlines. And then that mess with the weather underground 88 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: making bombs in the basement of a village townhouse. One 89 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: of those damned things won't off and destroyed the building 90 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 1: all four stories. People think I was out of touch, 91 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,240 Speaker 1: but I was paying attention. I heard Lennon's song give 92 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,680 Speaker 1: Me Some Truth. He's fed up. In that song, he 93 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: called politicians psychotic, said we were the blind leading the blind. 94 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 1: He enjoyed attacking me personally. Do you see the back 95 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: cover of his album where it's a doctored photo of 96 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: me and mild dancing naked together. But that give Me 97 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,559 Speaker 1: Some truthful? That was a call to arms. I believe 98 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: John wanted to provoke people and get them fired up. 99 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 1: The John Tour to these conditions. He wanted an uprising. 100 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: There was a clear and present danger to America, to 101 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: me and to my family. All of the songs from 102 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: this period recalls to arms. If you think they'd give 103 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 1: piece a chance as a peaceful song, you need to 104 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: wake up. That's that myopic thinking again. That is a 105 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 1: song specifically intended to incite a riot, to get people mobilized, 106 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: to get people marching on mass to a computation with 107 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: the very people they elected. And the ironic thing is 108 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: that very few of these people who sang along with 109 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 1: these songs and marched along in these protests, the ironic 110 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: thing is that they don't even know what they were 111 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:49,920 Speaker 1: speaking out against. Forced aboard that she's intuition about what 112 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: does it she ought to do? They were just following 113 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: a famous person down the street, not just famous, but naive. 114 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: M This is a man said that I the president 115 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 1: should just declare peace, as if you could do such 116 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: a thing. His fans they all thought it was possible, 117 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: so they followed it, and they would go wherever he 118 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: would lead. I didn't know what he was doing, because 119 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: John Oleman was no longer a songwriter. In my eyes, 120 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: he was playing the role of a pie piper in 121 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: a cultural uprising. And that was a threat. John had 122 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: become merely a tool of the radical leftist paramilitary movement, 123 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 1: and that was dangerous. He wrote songs about John Sinclair 124 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: and Angela Davis and Attica. He hung around Bobby Seal 125 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: and Jerry Ruman and Abby Hoffman. These were well established 126 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 1: threats to democracy, anti Americans. Those men all used John 127 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: as their megaphone to march their message up and down 128 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: the streets of New York City, and then the streets 129 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: of Washington, and then presumably down the streets of Miami, 130 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: where myself and all the others in the Republican Party 131 00:08:52,480 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: would be sitting ducks. It's all true. Hoover had John 132 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: Lennon and his wife under surveillance in New York City. 133 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 1: They were justified in their paranoia, just like I was 134 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 1: justified in mine. They were followed the planted agents of 135 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: the audience every time he made a public appearance or 136 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: played a concert for importance, every day. There's no evidence 137 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:44,479 Speaker 1: out there that we authorized the wire tapping of their telephones, 138 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: But between you and me and the Wall, I wouldn't 139 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 1: be surprised if Hoover's men made sure little authorization didn't 140 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 1: stand between them and the intelligence They needed to collect. 141 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: It was because of the surveillance that we were able 142 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: to uncover a very troubling plot, which at Holmes, the 143 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: head of the CIA, brought a memo to Hoover, and 144 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 1: Hoover brought it to me. John Lennon wasn't playing the 145 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: rock and roll tour in the traditional sense. He was 146 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,679 Speaker 1: plotting a direct route from New York to Miami, a 147 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: route that directly followed my campaign trail, and then he 148 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: was hatching a plot to disrupt the Republican National Convention 149 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: in Miami at the end of that route in August. 150 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: We needed a strategic countermeasure. That's what Hoover said, and 151 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 1: I trusted him. Of course, he'd been director of the 152 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: FBI for almost fifty years, and Hoover was intimately familiar 153 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: with what Lennon had been doing for years, Even back 154 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:42,080 Speaker 1: in nine when he and his wife released that unlistenable 155 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: album with a filthy cover, the two of them start 156 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:50,359 Speaker 1: really naked. A congressman centered angry letter about such unnecessary 157 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 1: filth to Hoover, and that's probably when the FBI opened 158 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: a file. The congressman called it a vulgar display of garbage, 159 00:10:57,240 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 1: Whover sent some men to tail Lennon when he visited 160 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: the States in ninety seventy and went to California. They 161 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 1: were under strict direction together whatever evidence they could to 162 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:08,640 Speaker 1: prove that London was engaged in violent anti war demonstrations 163 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: or narcotics. America's public enemy Number one in the United 164 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: States is drug abuse. They hit the jackpot when they 165 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,120 Speaker 1: caught wind of the plan in to destruct the Republican 166 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: Convention in Miami. Lennon put it together with help from 167 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: Ruben Hoffman, Sinclair and Alan Ginsburgh. Was there. At the 168 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,760 Speaker 1: center of this plan was John Lennon being used as 169 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: a tool to so discontent among youth. But he was 170 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: forced to god this as a tuition, and now twelve 171 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: million new voters would be going to the poll since 172 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: we reduced the voting age. John Lennon was not an American, 173 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: He paid no taxes, but yet he was here in 174 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: this country spreading an anti American message to millions of 175 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: impressionable minds. That's what sent red flags up the chain 176 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: of command all the way to meet a strategic countermeasure, 177 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,320 Speaker 1: Hooever said, the easiest thing was to port John Lennon 178 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: as soon as possible. Fort makes slay named something coopish. 179 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 1: John Lennon's status in this country was as a guest 180 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:18,920 Speaker 1: who had made an exception for him to be here 181 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: to be with his wife for a brief amount of time. 182 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 1: He wasn't eligible for a visa because of the drug 183 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: convection back in England, the one where the drug squad 184 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: found cannabis resident in his London flat back in ninety 185 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,960 Speaker 1: but nevertheless he'd been able to secure a sixty day 186 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: visa with the help of his lawyers. We used that 187 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: London drug conviction as a major reason why he should 188 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 1: be told he had a month to leave the country. 189 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: This was March of nineteen seventy two. If London did 190 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: as he was told, he would be out of the 191 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 1: country long before my campaign trail at to Miami, and 192 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: therefore he would not be able to rally his fans 193 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: and bring violence and descent to the Republican National Convention. 194 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: That was our strategic counter measure that when a little 195 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:04,560 Speaker 1: smarter than actually law. But London had strategies of his own. 196 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: He hired an immigration lawyer and fought tooth and nail 197 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: to stay. His lawyer applied for permanent status for both 198 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 1: John Lennon and his wife that Yoko Ono, well, she 199 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: could get permanent status because she was the mother of 200 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,719 Speaker 1: an American child. So if we granted her residence and 201 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 1: then denied Lennon, that same movement that he was mobilizing 202 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: would accuse us of breaking up a family could be 203 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: showing experience. Yoko Oono sat on a witness chair in 204 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: the hearing room at the Immigration and Naturalization Service building 205 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: in Manhattan and said, and I quote, they're asking me 206 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 1: to choose between my child and my husband. And then 207 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: she said, I don't know if there's any mercy to 208 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 1: plead for because this is an a federal court, but 209 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 1: if there is, I'd like it please. I couldn't believe it. 210 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: I was told this was a done deal. They're removing 211 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: John London from the United States would be easy board. 212 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: That's a tuition. Consider it done. That's what they told me. 213 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 1: And now we're stuck in this impasse. Lennon's lawyer kept 214 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 1: buying him a little more time and then a little more. 215 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:14,160 Speaker 1: How is it possible that you can get these little 216 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 1: extra bits of time? I kept asking Hoover that question, 217 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,440 Speaker 1: and I wasn't getting the goddamn answer that I wanted, 218 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: and Miami was approaching. I can only imagine how much 219 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: anger at John Lennon was becoming, and how much is 220 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: hatred of me and my administration had been exacerbated by 221 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: our deportation efforts, and that he would funnel that anger 222 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: into his so called revolution at the upcoming convention. So 223 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: I took matters into my own hands, which is what 224 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:44,880 Speaker 1: you have to do as presidents sometimes, just like I 225 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: did in nineteen fifty two when the papers called for 226 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: me to abandon my run for vice president over what 227 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: they perceived as some secret fund. But in all of 228 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: my years of public life, I have never profited, never 229 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 1: profited from public service. I earned every singer I went 230 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: on live TV and got my base in my corner. 231 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 1: When I lost the nineteen sixty presidential election to Kennedy, 232 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: I didn't mope about it. I hit the road and hustled, 233 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 1: and my efforts helped me get Republicans elected in droves, 234 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: the House, the Senate Governors. Fort makes life read something. 235 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,080 Speaker 1: It set me up to become president in n and 236 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: in all of my years public life, I have never 237 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:36,760 Speaker 1: obstructed justice. But back in v two, taking matters into 238 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: my own hands when it was clear that deporting John 239 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 1: Lennon was going to be harder than I thought. I 240 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: bent the year of a young White House staffer, a 241 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: kid named Tom Houston. I asked him to look into 242 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: this whole situation, the bombmakers, the dander get her uppers, 243 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: the rabble rousers, and how someone is famous and infelluctual 244 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: as John Lennon fit into it all you people in 245 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: the world m I asked Tom to come back with 246 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: a plan for us to combat the approach, the storm 247 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 1: of resistance. Tom delivered. He may have delivered a little 248 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: too much. I think he even scared Hoover. His plan 249 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: called for widespread mail, opening of known radicals and something 250 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,880 Speaker 1: I've been told was referred to as black bag jobs, 251 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: or breaking into residences to install tabs and bugs again 252 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:29,520 Speaker 1: on known radicals. Were these taxics illegal? Well, I'm not 253 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,640 Speaker 1: a crop. You're asking the wrong question. The question you 254 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 1: should be asking is what would you do to protect 255 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:45,680 Speaker 1: your country. We'll be right back after this word word 256 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: word now. I like music and musicians just fine. The 257 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 1: great R and B artist James Brown played at my 258 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,520 Speaker 1: inauguration in nine. He played a trip song of his 259 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 1: called say It Loud, I'm Block and I'm Proud, which, 260 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,439 Speaker 1: if I may be so bold, was perhaps one of 261 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,760 Speaker 1: the most culturally important songs played her the presidential inauguration ever. 262 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: Because James Brown wanted to bring people together with his 263 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 1: music and I wanted to bring people together. James Brown 264 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: believed in what I was doing so much that he 265 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 1: even endorsed me when I ran a second time. And 266 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 1: then there was Elvis. Elvis came to see me at 267 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: the White House in he told me that he was 268 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 1: on my side, just like James Brown. Before he left, 269 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 1: Elvis asked for a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics 270 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,320 Speaker 1: and Dangerous Trucks. Why the hell not, He was a king, 271 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:44,520 Speaker 1: after all. Someone told me later that the only reason 272 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,640 Speaker 1: Elvis wanted the badge was because he thought it would 273 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: give him carte blanche to carry guns and drugs with 274 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: him wherever he went. I don't know if I believe that. 275 00:17:52,080 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: Pressley seemed like a decent fellow to me. John Lennon, 276 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 1: on the other hand, did not. This is how John 277 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: Lennon was different in my eyes from other musicians like 278 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: James Brown and Elvis Pressley. John Lennon was no longer 279 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: a Beatle. He was no longer John Lennon the musician. 280 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: As soon as he stepped onto American soil, he changed 281 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: such a tution. He became John Lennon the distructor, and 282 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: I was his target. Now. The intel about the Republican 283 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,560 Speaker 1: Invention business wasn't the first time we had received information 284 00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: claiming that John Lennon was planning something. Jerry Reuben himself, 285 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: when talking to the press about the concert, a bunch 286 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: of that we're going to stage at the Republican Party's 287 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 1: presidential nominating convention in San Diego. That was a summer 288 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: of se We didn't have to tap any phones or 289 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: pull any black bag jobs to get that info. Jerry 290 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: Reuben just went ahead and told whoever wanted to listen 291 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:55,879 Speaker 1: talking to so hohover ran with that information and became 292 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 1: increasingly concerned that whatever it was that they were planning 293 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: was more than a concert. They wanted chaos, They wanted 294 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,359 Speaker 1: me out, that was for damn sure. They wanted the 295 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: top of the system as we knew it, as we 296 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: still know it today. It was either the Yippies, or 297 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 1: the Black Panthers, or the White Panthers, or just some 298 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: hodgepodge all of the above misguided anti war radicals, and 299 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 1: John was part of that mix. Whatever we did to 300 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,280 Speaker 1: monitor John Lennon's activity, people he associated with, the meetings 301 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,600 Speaker 1: he attended, the ideas he sought to disseminate. We did 302 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: it all because we thought we had to. And if 303 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: it made him nervous, if it made him paranoid and 304 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 1: cause him to rethink what he was doing and saying, well, good, 305 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,520 Speaker 1: so be it. First Lennon thought he heard clicking sounds 306 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 1: on his phone line. Then he thought he heard footsteps 307 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,159 Speaker 1: walking behind him on the sidewalk, And then he couldn't 308 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: look at any regular person the same way anymore. Mailman, 309 00:19:56,160 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: dog walkers, cab drivers, nanny's pushing babies through men hat 310 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,159 Speaker 1: and a stroller. They all look suspect to him. He 311 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 1: couldn't trust anyone. He couldn't turn his back on strangers, 312 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: every phone call, every knock on the door, every passing 313 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 1: good morning, pleasantry. Pretty Soon he couldn't take it anymore. 314 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: And then, partly through the dress we put upon him, 315 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: John Lennon came to his senses. He looked at all 316 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,719 Speaker 1: these coked spirits in their eyes. What in the hell 317 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 1: were they thinking? Didn't they remember Chicago in the Democratic 318 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: National Convention, the National Guard and the cops and billy 319 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: clubs and tear gas? Is that what they wanted? And 320 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: if God forbid, they were successful. If this rag tag 321 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,040 Speaker 1: group of violent insurrectionists got what they wanted the top 322 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:50,239 Speaker 1: of the system, then what what would they replace it with? 323 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: What was the point of all this? I didn't know 324 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: what he was doing. Now. Len his decision to bow 325 00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,800 Speaker 1: out of it all, first to abandon the San Diego 326 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 1: and then abandoned Miami plot, certainly he made that decision 327 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,080 Speaker 1: with the safety of his own life on his mind. 328 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 1: I think these other people, Reuben Seal Sinclair, they all 329 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: lived this life from the get gods people in the world, 330 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: a life of surveillance and danger and the edge never 331 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: being edgy enough. And it was a new territory for Lenin. 332 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 1: And let's face it, when it came down to it, 333 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: what we exposed in John Lennon is that he was 334 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: no revolutionary, He was no activist. He was a dilettante 335 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: who was forced to go this a tuition. He even 336 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: said so before he died. He did it out of guilt, 337 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 1: guilt for being rich and famous, guilt for not being 338 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 1: a man of the people. As he liked to pretend, 339 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: he allowed ourselves to be manipulated by people whose purpose 340 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: in life was to minibate a horrible people in order 341 00:21:54,520 --> 00:22:00,719 Speaker 1: to get what they wanted. Talking to Bush, well, they 342 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: never got what they wanted, but I got what I wanted. First, 343 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 1: we defused John Lennon's influence. And then on Tuesday, November 344 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: seventy two, I was re elected President of the United 345 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:21,440 Speaker 1: States over George mccombery. And do you know what, there 346 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: was no surge of young voters between ages of eighteen 347 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 1: and one. In fact, it was the lowest voter turnout 348 00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: in over twenty years. And the Americans that did go 349 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:39,880 Speaker 1: to the polls, they re elected me in a landslide. 350 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 1: I won forty nine states. McGovern got one state, Massachusetts. 351 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 1: The silent majority had spoken up, and they had spoken 352 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 1: up for me. John Lennon's America was not America. The 353 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,600 Speaker 1: Hippies America was not America. The Peace and Love movement 354 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: was a blip on the radar. There was no revolution. 355 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 1: There was just purpose. And it wasn't John Lennons. It 356 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:42,640 Speaker 1: was America's. It was mine. August nine, o one pm 357 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: Eastern time, the White House. Richard Nixon felt the heat 358 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: of the excess lighting that had been hauled into the 359 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: Oval Office for the purpose of the television cameras. The lights, 360 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: the camera, the crew. It all seemed a bit overkilled 361 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: to him. Less was more, in his opinion. But what 362 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: was actually occupying Nixon's mind and those final seconds leading 363 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,719 Speaker 1: up to when the cameraman gave him the thumbs up 364 00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: and the feed went live into the homes of millions 365 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: of his fellow Americans, was that he would sweat like 366 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 1: a pig. That the sweaty image of a disgraced president 367 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: throwing in the towel live on national TV would give 368 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 1: his critics even more ammunition with which they could continue 369 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: to assassinate his character. But at least it wasn't as 370 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,120 Speaker 1: bad as the debates with Jack Kennedy. Nixon had that 371 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,760 Speaker 1: going form that was sixty election year, the first time 372 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: Nixon ran for president. Kennedy didn't need to do much 373 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 1: to win that first debate. Nixon refused to wear the 374 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,159 Speaker 1: customary makeup one wears when one appears on television. He 375 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: was unshaven and haggard. Nixon looked so bad that night 376 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 1: that his own mother called him after the debate was 377 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 1: over to ask if he was ill. Nixon had learned 378 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 1: from that mistake, a mistake that cost him the election 379 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: by a hair. He didn't contest the like he did 380 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: the honorable thing, which was to concede to his opponent, 381 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: Jack Kennedy, the man with the hair and the smile. 382 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: And then Nixon did the honorable thing again when he 383 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 1: formerly certified Kennedy's election in front of Congress on January 384 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: six of the following year. After all, Nixon was vice 385 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,479 Speaker 1: president under outgoing President Eisenhower, and so at that moment 386 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: that was his role, his purpose. Now, in nineteen seventy four, 387 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 1: staring into the reflection of a camera's lens, Nixon had 388 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: a new purpose, and once again it was the honorable thing. 389 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: Richard Nixon stared straight into the glassy abyss of the 390 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: camera lens and resigned the office of the President of 391 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: the United States. Nixon's resignation, of course, was due to 392 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: his involvement in an attempted cover up of a nineteen 393 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:50,680 Speaker 1: seventy two break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 394 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,240 Speaker 1: the Watergate Office Building in Washington, d C. It was 395 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: Tom Houston's black bag job strategy gone wild. The ensuing 396 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,520 Speaker 1: investigation would indict sixty nine people and convict many of 397 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,240 Speaker 1: them in high positions of power within Nixon's administration, and 398 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: as if that wasn't enough, in the midst of the 399 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: Watergate scandal, Nixon's vice president, Spireau Agnew, was embroiled in 400 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: a controversy of his own when it was a reveal 401 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:20,040 Speaker 1: that Agnew had been taking cash bribes from engineering and 402 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: construction firms for more than ten years, including the years 403 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:27,119 Speaker 1: he served as vice president. He resigned ahead of Nixon 404 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 1: in order to avoid his own impeachment. Nixon and Agnew 405 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: were both left to contemplate whether or not they had 406 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: any purpose left in life. In Los Angeles, earlier, in 407 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: the afternoon of August nine four, John Lennon held up 408 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: a copy of the late edition of the Los Angeles 409 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:47,120 Speaker 1: Times for a photographer on the street. Nixon quits read 410 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,879 Speaker 1: the headline, will explain decision on TV tonight. In the photo, John, 411 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 1: who was still embroiled in a legal battle over the 412 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,560 Speaker 1: status of his US citizenship, looked like a weight had 413 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,440 Speaker 1: been lifted off his shoulders, like he had won the fight. 414 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: Nixon's re election in seventy two had served as a 415 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 1: major turning point in John's political activism. When John heard 416 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: the news that day, boy it nearly killed him. He 417 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: wondered if his attempts to mobilize the youth vote were 418 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 1: in vain. The bed ends, the rallies, the marches, the songs. 419 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: Didn't the American public know that war was over? If 420 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 1: they wanted it? Did they not want it? In nineteen 421 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,960 Speaker 1: seventy two, Nixon had one and John was defeated. John 422 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: drank from a tequila bottle until the sun came up 423 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,159 Speaker 1: that night, and then, in front of Yoko, in a 424 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: whole bunch of party guests, he took a fellow party 425 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,440 Speaker 1: goer to bed for a shag. All was lost, it seemed. 426 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,840 Speaker 1: He wondered if revolution was nothing but a catchy pop song. 427 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: John thought back to San Diego in Miami. Maybe he 428 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: should have followed through with the plan to violently disrupt 429 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: the Republican Party. Maybe that would have made a difference. 430 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:58,919 Speaker 1: Maybe violence had been the answer all along. Maybe he 431 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 1: joined the weather under round, go build bombs in a 432 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 1: basement in Lower Manhattan, fight fire with fire, or do 433 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: what Eldredge Cleaver the Black Panthers suggested, and off the 434 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 1: pig or maybe he'd just say fuck it and just disappear. 435 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: He'd go somewhere else entirely, and keep up with a 436 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,160 Speaker 1: diet of tequila and cocaine and forget about revolution for good. 437 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,480 Speaker 1: People would look at him in point and say, with 438 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,119 Speaker 1: equal parts discussed and disbelief, that's John Lennon. He wouldn't 439 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 1: let the comments bother him. He wouldn't let anything bother 440 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: him anymore, because what did it even matter anymore? In 441 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,879 Speaker 1: a world where Nixon was elected twice, there was no hope, 442 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,680 Speaker 1: just nihilism. It made no difference what John did, how 443 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: hard he tried, what he said, how he's saying. Things 444 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 1: didn't seem to be getting better all the time. There 445 00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: was always a mess, It was always a slog, and 446 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,480 Speaker 1: there didn't seem to be anything anyone could do about 447 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 1: the carnage left in society's wake. Life just barreled forward fast, 448 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 1: out of control, leaving behind so much Blood on the 449 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: Track X all right, everybody, thanks for listening to Blood 450 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 1: on the Tracks. If you like what you hear, be 451 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: sure to find and follow Blood on the Tracks on 452 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: Apple podcast, I Heart Radio, app, Amazon Music, or wherever 453 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,160 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. 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