President Carter would pardon all Vietnam draft dodgers less than a month after the show airing. On 1/21/77 Carter issued an executive pardon to all those that evaded that draft or deserted from the military.
Reenacted on December 18, 2019 by "Live in Front of a Studio Audience", along with an episode of "Good Times".
Broadcast at Christmas time in 1976, a young Vietnam draft evader visits the Bunker household from Canada. Carroll O'Connor delivers an angry line: "I don't wanna talk about that Goddamned war no more!" This line caused a great media discussion, but it was generally agreed that Archie would have said that. However, the network forced Lear and co. to dub in "...that rotten damn war no more!" as a compromise for presenting the episode's controversial subject matter. The edited line definitely deflates the drama.
An early version of this episode was written by (then-inexperienced) Jay Moriarty during All in the Family's third season, sending his agent to deliver it to Norman Lear. According to the agent, Lear had passed on it at that time. Turned out that Moriarty's agent never submitted it. While running for President in 1976, Jimmy Carter caused a nation-wide debate when he announced that he planned on pardoning all Vietnam draft-dodgers if he were elected. Moriarty (now a staff writer on The Jeffersons) then brought his previous story on the subject to Norman Lear, who jumped at it.
Even the DVD release dubs "that God-damned" war to "rotten damned war."