Nixon's Comment on Show "All in the Family"

[Jason76]

50 Years Later, White House Tapes Reveal Richard Nixon Hated 'All in the Family'

Sometimes you have to piss off the president to make sure the country changes for the better.

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A few days after All in the Family won their first Emmys, Nixon can be heard on White House audiotapes released to the public, trashing the TV show. As Time Magazine puts it, "Nixon was caught on his Oval Office tapes talking with his chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, and domestic policy chief, John Ehrlichman, about All in the Family, with the President praising Archie as 'a hard hat,' and Haldeman noting that the show seeks 'to downgrade him and make the square hard hat out to be bad.'"

He didn't like the show? I'm surprised (sarcasm). Anyway, though, looking back, many of the conservative views weren't all that bad. Do you feel Archie was the actual hero of the show or so to a large degree?