I do believe it goes back much further than 55 years!
I would just add: expect nothing… if something happens, it happens, we have no control over when or if anything comes to pass..
Something I found 22 years ago, when I first got online… Look up whole speech.. Quote from 1922 - "The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control BOTH parties, write political platforms, make cats paws of party leaders, use the leading men of private organizations, and resort to every device to place in nomination for high public office only such candidates as will be amenable to the dictates of corrupt big business. They connive at centralization of government on the theory that a small group of hand-picked, privately controlled individuals in power can be more easily handled than a larger group among whom there will most likely be men sincerely interested in public welfare" (New York City Mayor John Hylan - New York Times, March 27,1922).