[Linda Frances]

I bet it killed Ed Asner to sing these words.

All in the Family Lyrics
by (”Those Were the Days” by Charles Stouse and Lee Adams).

Boy the way Glen Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade.
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days.

And you knew who you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man
Like Herbert Hoover again.

Didn’t need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those were the days.

[woodbutcher1963]

Ed Asner?

You mean Carol O’Conner right?

Ed Asner was on Mary Tyler Moore as Lou Grant.

[Borges]

I don’t think the song was even written for AITF.

[tanknetter]

Mister we could use a man

Like Herbert Hoover again.

Here's something interesting. In its first version the song went "Mister we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again"

It was changed to "Herbert Hoover" because it was felt that using Coolidge was both too obscure and would help paint Archie and Edith in a more sympathetic light (as opposed to the bigoted a**hole and clueless/enabling wife). Hoover was both still well-remembered and despised by most of the public.

IIRC Lear and Reiner were pretty frikkin' horrified when both characters became almost instantly beloved. Meathead and Gloria were supposed to be the protagonists.