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The 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. The government even agreed to provide job training and new identities under the Federal Witness Protection Program. Everyone thought this was fair.
. . . (This article goes on eventually talking seeing a “tiny box in The New York Times announcing that a folk singer would be giving a benefit” but it never identifies the folk singer by name) . . .
(then asking about influences) “The Chad Mitchell Trio,” she (female roommate of singer) said. “Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor. And he loves the Cowsills.”
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