It's Edith and Archie Bunker's wedding anniversary. Edith manages to drag Archie to church. Daughter Gloria and her husband Mike try to whip up a party atmosphere for the parents.

Mike writes a letter to President Nixon, protesting everything that's wrong with America, including the state of the environment and the nation's involvement in Vietnam. Archie finds out, and to refute his son-in-law's claims he decides he too will write a letter praising the nation's chief and attempting to explain the Meathead as an ignorant. While penning the letter, Archie pictures the family all standing behind him, dressed in his Sunday best, all supporting his positions.

Archie refuses to donate blood because he's afraid that his vital fluids might get mixed in with those of a different race.

Archie scorns one of Mike's effeminate friends, unaware that one of his own beer-drinking buddies is a well-adjusted gay man.

No one in the family gets any sleep when Archie spends the night worring that he might lose his job.

Gloria leaves the house in a rage after Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in their marriage.

Archie is incensed when his sponging cousin Oscar has the nerve to drop dead in the upstairs bedroom.

Mike has second thoughts after he agrees to let Gloria pose as a nude model for one of his artist friends.

Mike sparks the latest family feud when he donates two hundred dollars to George McGovern's presidential campaign instead of paying Archie for room and board.

Henry Jeffersons joins Archie in trying to prevent a Hispanic from moving into the neighborhood.