January 18, 1968 –
At a White House luncheon to discuss the rise in urban crime, Eartha Kitt gets into a notorious spat with First Lady Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson, declaring, “Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason.”
Although accounts of the entire argument differ, Kitt is subsequently blacklisted in America.
And so it goes
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