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During a spoken phrase passage of the music, he speaks of being approached by a man, "his face red like a rose on a thorn bush, like all the colours of a royal flush, and he's peeling off those greenback payments, slapping them down, 100, 200". Bono stated the particular person he had in mind whereas writing these lyrics was Reagan, whose administration backed the navy regimes in Central and South America that Bono encountered on his trip. Mitchell saw the rise of the religious proper as a harmful and manipulative pressure on US politics and likened Reagan to a puppet being manipulated by powerful religious leaders. The widespread appearance of Reagan as a vilified icon in punk music significantly might be linked to the do-it-your self model of bands releasing their very own data and never being topic to the censorship of major labels, business radio or television. While presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon had been the subject of protest songs and politically satirical music during each the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal, presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter were talked about solely often by songwriters within the 1970s. That changed with Reagan's presidency, which brought on echoes of his prior campaign in opposition to counter-cultural activists a era earlier during his phrases as governor of California.