Phil Ochs singing Here’s to the State of Richard Nixon
This clip comes from a film of a 1971 benefit concert for John Sinclair. While Phil is in fine form here, he was beginning the slow descent that would end with him taking his own life in 1976. Ochs is playing an updated version of his song ‘Here’s to the State of Mississippi’, adapting it to describe excesses of the executive branch that seem strangely familiar.

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