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Revenge of the folkies
May 5, 1988
Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Maine

In October 1970 senior officials of the Nixon administration met secretly with representatives of the anti-war movement in a Carson City, Nev., motel. There, a broad agreement was reached: In exchange for the government's bringing the war in Vietnam to a close, the movement would see to it that all American folk singers went away.

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On Monday I called the folk singer's (Bob Dylan) apartment and got his roommate. She told me that 50 or 60 people had attended. I asked who her roommate's influences were.

"The Chad Mitchell Trio," she said. "Crosby Stills & Nash. James Taylor. And he loves the Cowsills."

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