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“‘You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed,’ the singer told the First Lady [Lady Bird] and the 50 other women at [a White House] luncheon. ‘They rebel in the street. They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam.’ The First Lady reportedly burst into tears. The president was furious. Kitt was blacklisted. She was investigated by the FBI and CIA, and ended up on the ‘Enemies List’ of Johnson’s successor, Richard Nixon” – John Nichols in The Nation