And just (a little less) than a year until President Nixon would be forced to resign, due to his impeachment in the Watergate scandal and be replaced by Ford. (8/9/1974, of course.)
I like to interpret he going “BAAH!” in closing panel as a pun-1. Obviously, the sound goats make, and 2. the interjection or exclamation “Bah!”(shades of Scrooge) meaning “So what? Big deal!”
Making us see humor in Charlie Brown “resigning himself” to being the goat(if you really can be perceptive), because he realizes he can never possibly rise above the level of goat.
True.