After attending a performance of the Broadway musical "The Wiz," an Afro-American adaptation of "The Wizard of Oz," in the mid-70s, Harburg was moved to put his reaction to the show into verse, and it bears repeating:
"From F.D.R. to Nixon.
/From "The Wizard" to "The Wiz."
/It doesn't quite seem possible,
/But, oh, my country, 'tis.".