Tim Scott: What’s past is prologue

When I was a kid, in the long ago summer of 1965, a song burst onto the radio called “Eve of Destruction.” Those were the days when we all had cheap and simple AM transistor radios that were constantly on.

This song, sung by Barry McGuire, became part of the soundtrack of that distant Cold War summer and would go on to reach No. 1 that September. The words were chilling even as the song was catchy, and it hit every topic head on — Vietnam, the draft, our lame government, civil rights, voting rights, the Middle East, the Cold War and even the space program.