According to the Buffalo Springfield boxed set liner notes (or is that
documentation since they don't use liners with CDs?) the song was written
when the powers that be changed the curfew for minors in Los Angeles and
effectively shut down several clubs catering to kids.  Well before the '68
convention but it was quickly adopted as an anthem afterward.

Chuck

on 8/15/03 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor at
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> Date:    Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:08:32 -0700
> From:    Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
> Subject: Re: For Wasser It's Worth
>
> Brilliant.  Laughed like heck.
>
> Mike
>
> I'd heard the song was written after the democratic convention, 68.  But I
> don't really know, of course.
>
> Mike