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On this day in 1969, President Richard Nixon and Vice President's Bureau T. Agnew and 40 U.S. governors viewed, quote, simulated acid trip films and listened to rock music in order to comprehend the generation gap.

Can you imagine that?

Oh, so this is what, this is what an acid trip is like.

Look, Mr. President, just go ahead and drop a little acid and see what it's like.

I don't think they're simulating what an acid trip is like, wow, that was crazy.

Mr. President, what did you think?

You're out of touch with the youth and you need their vote for re-election.

I found the experience to be groovy.

I mean, what, can you imagine the setup for this, how that looked?

In Orange County, California, a group of 18-year-olds in 1976 made a pact with each other

to gather once a year as part of the last man's society until the last man was standing

until he was the last one alive.

They bought a bottle of cognac, and that person was to drink, or is to drink, that bottle of cognac, by toasting each of the members in turn, as he will have been the last surviving member.

We thought that was pretty cool.

So we asked you about how you gather with folks from your youth and what pact you've made or where you gather or what you find out of the experience.

Catherine, you're up first.

Go ahead, sweetheart.

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