 Richard Nixon invites Merle Haggard to the White House to perform. And Merle Haggard describes that experience as one of the worst in his life. The people that he was performing for, including the president, didn't know his music, didn't like country music, and the only song that they responded to was Okie from Muskogee and Fight Inside of Me, the other backlash anthem. In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA