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=== Developing tradition ===
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It has become a tradition for many [[classic rock]] and [[adult album alternative]] radio stations to play the song each Thanksgiving.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2006/11/23/as_a_holiday_staple_alices_lives_here_evermore/ |title=As a holiday staple, 'Alice's' lives here evermore – The Boston Globe |publisher=Boston.com |date=2006-11-23 |access-date=2015-11-26}}</ref> Despite its
By the late 1970s, Guthrie had removed the song from his regular concert repertoire.<ref name=rollingstone/> In 1984, Guthrie, who was supporting [[George McGovern]]'s ultimately unsuccessful comeback bid for the Democratic presidential nomination,<ref>{{cite book |last=Marano |first=Richard Michael |title=Vote Your Conscience: The Last Campaign of George McGovern |publisher=Praeger Publishers |year=2003 |page=172}}</ref> revived "Alice's Restaurant" to protest the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan Administration]]'s reactivation of the [[Selective Service System]] registrations. That version has not been released on a commercial recording; at least one [[bootleg recording|bootleg]] of it from one of Guthrie's performances exists. It was this tour, which occurred near the 20th anniversary of the song (and continued as a general tour after McGovern dropped out of the race), that prompted Guthrie to return the song to his playlist every ten years, usually coinciding with the anniversary of either the song or the incident. The 30th anniversary version of the song includes a follow-up recounting how he learned that [[Richard Nixon]] had owned a copy of the song, and he jokingly suggested that this explained the famous [[18½-minute gap]] in the [[Watergate]] tapes.
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