1776 in JJ Byrne Tonight: Interesting Factoid

Again, thanks to Verse Responder, Leon Freilich, who sent this along.

Not only is “1776″ the best musical drama ever made, it’s the only one Richard Nixon had a role in. He screened the completed movie in the White House before its distribution in 1972 and loved it. Except for the song “Cool, Cool Considerate Men” in which Deep South conservatives urge the need to go “Always to the right, always to the right.”

Nixon took his unhappiness to Jack Warner, the producer, who obligingly cut it from the film. And that was Nixon’s always-to-the-right part. In the DVD, though, the song’s restored–and that’s probably what’ll be shown tonight at Byrne…

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