Lehrer began touring and recorded more albums, featuring some of his most iconic songs, such as “The Masochism Tango,” “Send the Marines” and “We Will All Go Together When We Go.” He also worked as a songwriter and performer for several television shows before stepping back from the music scene in the 1970s to focus on academics. “And, the usual jokes about the Army aside, one of the many fine things one has to admit is the way that the Army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion, in the sense that not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed, and color, but also on the grounds of ability,” Lehrer said as an introduction to his song “It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier,” which he said he wrote during his service and claimed to have submitted it as a contender for the Army’s official song. While in the Army and at the NSA, he co-authored the 1957 paper “The Gambler’s Run with Soft Hearted Adversary.” The paper, a math heavy work, had five sources in its content, but the bibliography listed six.
Author: Nicholas Slayton
Published at: 2025-07-27 20:23:00
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