<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> "Plug in, turn on, and cop out", a reference to Timothy Leary's pro-LSD phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out ." </Li> <Li> "Skag", slang term for heroin </Li> <Li> Xerox, best - known manufacturer (at the time of the poem's writing) of photocopying machines </Li> <Li> Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States </Li> <Li> John N. Mitchell, U.S. Attorney General under Nixon </Li> <Li> General Creighton Abrams, one of the commanders of military operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War </Li> <Li> Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee during the period of the Vietnam War (Rivers' name appears in the original 1970 recording, but not in the re-recorded 1971 version, being replaced by Spiro Agnew) </Li> <Li> Spiro Agnew, 39th vice president of the United States under Nixon </Li> <Li> "Hog maws", sometimes misheard as "hog moss", soul food made from the jowls, cheeks, or maw, of a pig </Li> <Li> Schaefer Award Theatre, an anthology of theatrical films that aired on several U.S. TV stations </Li> <Li> Natalie Wood, film actress </Li> <Li> Steve McQueen, film actor </Li> <Li> Bullwinkle, cartoon character </Li> <Li> Julia, a TV half - hour sitcom series starring Diahann Carroll . </Li> <Li> "Give your mouth sex appeal", from Ultra Brite toothpaste advertising </Li> <Li> "The revolution will not get rid of the nubs", the nubs being beard stubble, from a Gillette Techmatic razor advertisement of the period </Li> <Li> "NBC will not be able to predict the winner at 8: 32", a reference to television networks predicting the winner of presidential elections shortly after the polls close at 8 pm . </Li> <Li> Whitney Young, civil rights leader </Li> <Li> Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP </Li> <Li> Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, alluding to the Watts Riots of 1965 </Li> <Li> "Red, black, and green", the colors of the Pan-African flag </Li> <Li> Green Acres, a U.S. television sitcom </Li> <Li> The Beverly Hillbillies, a U.S. television sitcom </Li> <Li> "Hooterville Junction" (a corruption of Petticoat Junction, a U.S. television sitcom) </Li> <Li> Dick and Jane, white children, a brother and sister, featured in American basal readers </Li> <Li> Search for Tomorrow, a popular U.S. television soap opera </Li> <Li> "Hairy - armed women liberationists", a reference to mid-century members of the feminist movement </Li> <Li> Jackie Onassis, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy's widow, seen during the period in television broadcasts of Kennedy memorials </Li> <Li> Jim Webb, U.S. composer </Li> <Li> Francis Scott Key, lyricist of "The Star - Spangled Banner" </Li> <Li> Glen Campbell, U.S. pop / country music singer, then hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour </Li> <Li> Tom Jones, Welsh pop music singer, then hosting This Is Tom Jones </Li> <Li> Johnny Cash, U.S. country music singer, then hosting The Johnny Cash Show </Li> <Li> Engelbert Humperdinck, British pop music singer, then hosting The Engelbert Humperdinck Show </Li> <Li> Rare Earth, all - white U.S. pop music band signed to Motown Records (this band is only referred to in the 1971 version) </Li> <Li> "White tornado", advertising slogan for Ajax cleanser, "Ajax cleans like a white tornado" </Li> <Li> "White lightning", a slang term for moonshine, the name of a 1950s country and western song by George Jones, and an American psychedelic rock band . </Li> <Li> "Dove in your bedroom", an advertising image associated with Dove anti-perspirant deodorant </Li> <Li> Reference to "Put a tiger in your tank", an Esso (now Exxon) advertising slogan created by Chicago copywriter Emery Smith </Li> <Li> "Giant in your toilet bowl," a reference to Liquid - Plumr commercials saying that it cleared so well it was like "having a giant in your toilet bowl" with an animation of a large arm using a plunger on your toilet . </Li> <Li> Reference to "Things go better with Coke", a Coca - Cola advertising slogan </Li> <Li> Reference to "Fights germs that may cause bad breath", from Listerine advertising </Li> <Li> Reference to "Let Hertz put you in the driver's seat", advertising slogan for Hertz car rental </Li> </Ul> <Li> "Plug in, turn on, and cop out", a reference to Timothy Leary's pro-LSD phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out ." </Li>

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