WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:03.690 align:middle line:84% This is a little bit of history, called "Elegiac," 00:00:03.690 --> 00:00:09.690 align:middle line:84% and it's about the 1960s and the '70s, 00:00:09.690 --> 00:00:11.797 align:middle line:90% which we now call the '60s. 00:00:11.797 --> 00:00:18.080 align:middle line:84% [LAUGHTER] "If there could be said 00:00:18.080 --> 00:00:21.890 align:middle line:84% to have been a union scattered among the Union of American 00:00:21.890 --> 00:00:26.420 align:middle line:84% States, it was the union of those who hated Richard Milhous 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:30.110 align:middle line:84% Nixon, who gathered in parks and amped up 00:00:30.110 --> 00:00:35.030 align:middle line:84% old ballrooms with names more famous than the Eiffel Tower. 00:00:35.030 --> 00:00:37.280 align:middle line:84% If you love one another, it's good to have 00:00:37.280 --> 00:00:39.290 align:middle line:90% an enemy in common. 00:00:39.290 --> 00:00:43.520 align:middle line:84% Oh, we were a kingdom then with our own high priests, court 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.810 align:middle line:84% jesters, a national anthem changed by the week 00:00:47.810 --> 00:00:52.370 align:middle line:84% and a new code of virtue, we gave everything away. 00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:56.540 align:middle line:84% A place to sleep, a hug to a stranger on the street. 00:00:56.540 --> 00:00:59.930 align:middle line:84% We gave away our names and tried on new ones 00:00:59.930 --> 00:01:04.849 align:middle line:84% and dubbed our children sunset, moonrise, Che. 00:01:04.849 --> 00:01:07.100 align:middle line:84% You could stick out your thumb and anywhere you 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:09.650 align:middle line:90% ended up was where you were. 00:01:09.650 --> 00:01:13.970 align:middle line:84% We gave away the selves we'd brought from Montana, 00:01:13.970 --> 00:01:17.060 align:middle line:90% Kansas, Florida, Maine. 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:19.130 align:middle line:84% People who never read were reading 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:24.680 align:middle line:84% the sacred texts, how the little red book, the I Ching. 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:29.930 align:middle line:84% We let the worst of us join us, hell's angels, Charlie Manson, 00:01:29.930 --> 00:01:36.530 align:middle line:84% we all looked alike, so who knew good acid from bad until you 00:01:36.530 --> 00:01:38.930 align:middle line:90% got high or you didn't. 00:01:38.930 --> 00:01:43.190 align:middle line:84% And among us, like fifth columnists at a long wedding 00:01:43.190 --> 00:01:47.210 align:middle line:84% party of body, mind, and soul, those educated 00:01:47.210 --> 00:01:52.340 align:middle line:84% American activists, humorless amateur revolutionaries. 00:01:52.340 --> 00:01:54.830 align:middle line:84% At Golden Gate Park he said, 'Here, 00:01:54.830 --> 00:01:59.900 align:middle line:84% have a master slave relationship with your dog. 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:04.520 align:middle line:84% At People's Park, what would you say if I told you I bomb police 00:02:04.520 --> 00:02:06.080 align:middle line:90% stations?' 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:08.990 align:middle line:84% He'd curled his hair and dyed it red, 00:02:08.990 --> 00:02:11.690 align:middle line:84% his draft card and driver's license 00:02:11.690 --> 00:02:14.780 align:middle line:84% snatched from a fellow student in the library 00:02:14.780 --> 00:02:17.180 align:middle line:90% at Columbia University. 00:02:17.180 --> 00:02:22.520 align:middle line:84% At the surf for Jules and Jim, he lit a joint and the audience 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:23.600 align:middle line:90% inhaled. 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:27.050 align:middle line:84% On Fisherman's Wharf, he charmed a young banker from 00:02:27.050 --> 00:02:31.520 align:middle line:84% the Cleveland Federal Reserve, 'Have you ever fantasized a big 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.530 align:middle line:90% embezzlement?' 00:02:33.530 --> 00:02:37.010 align:middle line:84% Stoned on acid I lounged in the bath reading 00:02:37.010 --> 00:02:41.480 align:middle line:84% 'Ramparts Magazine,' and there he was on the last page, 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:45.350 align:middle line:84% his photo on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. 00:02:45.350 --> 00:02:48.530 align:middle line:90% My pal, my guru for a week. 00:02:48.530 --> 00:02:51.740 align:middle line:84% I would be wedged between who I used to be 00:02:51.740 --> 00:02:55.040 align:middle line:84% and who I ought to be, Mark Rudd. 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:59.090 align:middle line:84% And I wondered, would I want him for my President? 00:02:59.090 --> 00:03:05.340 align:middle line:84% Nixon, the 4th of July 2007, a reunion of old friends. 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:08.780 align:middle line:84% There's the rerun of his funeral on TV, 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:13.670 align:middle line:84% fog saunters up from the Pacific for a look and see. 00:03:13.670 --> 00:03:16.730 align:middle line:84% A busload of fools pulls up who loved 00:03:16.730 --> 00:03:19.910 align:middle line:84% America more than their own children, who 00:03:19.910 --> 00:03:23.270 align:middle line:84% came home dead or alive, forever dented 00:03:23.270 --> 00:03:26.060 align:middle line:84% by a bullet in the helmet and swelled 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:30.590 align:middle line:84% our ranks with new slang and a new technology. 00:03:30.590 --> 00:03:33.620 align:middle line:84% Now in fading color, clips are flipping 00:03:33.620 --> 00:03:37.730 align:middle line:84% past, so familiar they look like logos, thick, 00:03:37.730 --> 00:03:42.020 align:middle line:84% quang duck the Buddhist priest in flames brighter 00:03:42.020 --> 00:03:44.330 align:middle line:90% than his saffron robes. 00:03:44.330 --> 00:03:48.080 align:middle line:84% A spy, a boy, a spray of blood, a puff 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:52.760 align:middle line:84% of smoke from the pistol of the Saigon chief of police. 00:03:52.760 --> 00:03:56.750 align:middle line:84% There we are at Woodstock, Altamonte, braless, shoeless, 00:03:56.750 --> 00:04:02.090 align:middle line:84% bearded, muddied up, we look funny but we sure could dance. 00:04:02.090 --> 00:04:03.740 align:middle line:90% 'Is that you grandma?' 00:04:03.740 --> 00:04:08.090 align:middle line:84% The grandkids asked then, 'Was life really better in those 00:04:08.090 --> 00:04:09.470 align:middle line:90% days?' 00:04:09.470 --> 00:04:12.620 align:middle line:90% Nixon, 'We miss you.' 00:04:12.620 --> 00:04:15.830 align:middle line:84% What will be the trigger for another revolution? 00:04:15.830 --> 00:04:17.209 align:middle line:90% Who will pull it? 00:04:17.209 --> 00:04:18.560 align:middle line:90% These kids? 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.200 align:middle line:84% For whom we reinvented trust in strangers and organic gardening 00:04:24.200 --> 00:04:27.710 align:middle line:84% and 40 different hives of marijuana and sex 00:04:27.710 --> 00:04:32.360 align:middle line:84% on the beaches of California as casual as the sun goes up 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:34.160 align:middle line:90% and the sun goes comes-- 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.050 align:middle line:84% as the sun goes down and the sun comes up, maybe so. 00:04:39.050 --> 00:04:43.430 align:middle line:84% Although when the brass band plays 'God bless America,' they 00:04:43.430 --> 00:04:46.880 align:middle line:84% sing along, after all, it's their 'Country Tis 00:04:46.880 --> 00:04:48.970 align:middle line:90% of Thee' too." 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:50.000 align:middle line:90%