"love it or leave it"

[Jonathan Lighter]

YBQ has "America: Love it or Leave it" under "Political Slogans," dated to
the Vietnam years.

That's when I first heard it.

However:

Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions, Pt.
3, 1941, p. 939:

"Love America or leave it alone: w & m Clarence Gaskill, co. May 28,
1941....Saintly-Joy-Select, Inc., 1941."

JL

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