Did you know that in 1980 – just between the end of his acting career and becoming the fortieth president of the United States Of America – Ronald Reagan produced an album of songs by Howling James Huckabee. James Huckabee had a voice like liquid gold being poured down a rooster's neck, but had only released one album about twenty years before, in 1964. Ronald Reagan couldn't get enough of old Jim's crooning, and just had to have more.

Unfortunately, old Jim had already passed on by the time Ronald discovered him. "Perhaps I can exhume his body and clone him," pondered Ronald. Nancy just rolled her eyes and said "no". He knew better than to argue with Nancy.

But Ronald would not be discouraged. He brought in a new singer, who he dubbed James Huckabee II. James Huckabee II happened to be a chicken farmer by day. Now, Ronald was a city boy for the most part – he had starred in a few westerns, but never really been to the west. So when James Huckabee II – New Jim for short – suggested recording in the chicken coop behind his house, Ronald was ecstatic.

"You don't know chickens until you meet them, Nance," he said over dinner, after a long day recording. "Why, this one crow. You should see his plumage. Not a stray feather on the fellow. And so commanding – regal. If a crow told you to tear down a wall, you would tear down that wall, pronto."

Yes, I suppose Ronald rather liked New Jim's crow.

Explanation: after the civil rights movement, the Jim Crow "separate but equal" laws were deemed unconstitutional. This made a lot of people happy, but it made some people quite angry. Ronald Reagan may have been one of the angry ones, as about eighteen years after Jim Crow was abolished, he introduced the war on drugs, a form of systematic disenfranchisement of minority groups that continues to this day.