Didn’t want the Beach Boys at the Washington DC 4th of July celebration, because he didn’t want to attract “That kind of people there.” Unaware that they were personal friends of the Reagans................
Yes, the Beach Boys were then invited to play a White House gig in 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdXGlcwUvRA
There are other videos of that day. A visibly drunk Dennis Wilson was all huggy-huggy with Nancy Reagan. Poor Dennis his lifestyle would catch up with him barely six months later.
My only recollection of Watt!
Didn’t want the Beach Boys at the Washington DC 4th of July celebration, because he didn’t want to attract “That kind of people there.” Unaware that they were personal friends of the Reagans..............
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Respectfully, you are repeating the leftist media fairy-tale. The true story was that the band “THE GRASS ROOTS” played the warm-up act for the Beach Boys. Dozens of families complained b/c this band, as its name would suggest, attracted hippie-type weed smokers who smoked their weed while families with kids tried to enjoy the 4th of July music. Watt had no clue who the Beach Boys were. He just didn’t want the pot-smoking losers on the Mall. I don’t know of ANY conservative Republican who ever had an issue with the Beach Boys.