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The world press, though entirely cynical nonetheless runs the stories and interviews. Like The Beatles before them, John and Yoko prepare to invade America, to carry their message to the heart of the beast. It is then that John Lennon’s visa is denied. The Ono / Lennons keep at it. They fly to Canada and visit Prime Minister Trudeau instead.
But John Lennon comes to love New York and America and in 1971 he and Yoko decide to move there. The war in Vietnam still rages. Richard Nixon, who was elected on a promise to get the United States out of Vietnam, bombs Cambodia instead. In reaction, demonstrators gather outside the White House. The song they sing is “Give Peace a Chance.” Richard Nixon personally orders government officials to “harass [Lennon| and ‘kick him out of America.'”* In the kind of language that would later become all too familiar to Americans, the Internal Security Subcommittee releases a memo headed “John Lennon.” It says, “If Lennon’s visa was terminated it would be a strategy counter-measure.”
John Lennon, lacking his own government bureaucracy, strikes back through song: “No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky Dick’s gonna mother-hubbard soft-soap me . . .”
Senator Thurmond writes to Attorney General John Mitchell, “This appears to me to be an important matter, and I think it would be well for it to be considered at the highest level . . as I can see many headaches might be avoided if the appropriate action were taken in time.”
John Lennon sings, “I’m sick and tired of hearing things from up-tight, shortsighted, narrow-minded hypocritics. All I want is some truth. Just gimme some truth.” (FROM AN AMERICAN STORY)
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