Lyndon Baines Johnson (President of the United States of America, 1963 - 1968)
In the 1960s, when I was a child, some men started growing their hair long. It was sort of a style-trend, and was connected to the idea that the person with longer hair opposed the war in Vietnam. (...Which was never an actual, declared war, it was officially a police action).
Sometime after President Johnson's administration was over and Richard Nixon's administration had begun, after his election in 1968, I saw a photograph of Johnson with long hair. It was long at the back, as we can see from the pictures here. (I'm not sure which picture I saw - it was in a magazine, I think: the photos I put here are from among those I could find on the Internet in the present-day.)
I was surprised when I saw the picture, back then - probably in 1973 ... most guys who grew long hair were young. I was struck with the idea that President Johnson might have decided to let his hair grow a little bit long to symbolize solidarity with the anti-war protesters - like he had maybe changed his mind about the war, and was sorry for how long it had gone on, and all the death and destruction.
In that March 31, 1968, televised speech, Pres. Johnson said we are not going to widen this war.
Then Richard Nixon was elected President in autumn of that year. And later on he - widened the war - going into Cambodia.
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on You Tube, video titled:
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Official Lyric Video)
uploader / channel: ABKCOVEVO.
Play and enjoy.
To me, this song kind of gives a feeling of the late '60s....
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