"love it or leave it"

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> You're right about the short form, Wilson.
>
> I'm only showing that the phrase existed long before VN, FWIW, IYKWIM. YBQ
> (that's four in a row) recommends a look at earlier but far less similar
> words from Dorothy Parker & Gus Kahn.
>
> Also FWIW, my recollection is that "America: Love it or Leave it" came on
> the national scene only as late as 1969.  It was the same year that
> conservatives hijacked the American flag for their exclusive bumper-sticker
> use.

I'd have guessed 1968, at least by the time of the Chicago Democratic Convention in August and the backlash against opponents of the war that crystallized with the widely supported "police riot" against protestors there.

LH

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