What political event influenced warren zevon to write the song lawyers guns and money?

Answer 1

There was no political event that inspired and/or influenced the writing of the song.

Mr. Zevon told this story whenever asked:

My job is making things up, y'know, but "Lawyers, Guns And Money" was very loosely, in my mind, based on the idea of the old Chuck Berry song, "Dear Dad" - "Dear Dad, don't get mad, what I'm asking for." And I was on vacation with a guy named Bert Stein, who worked at Asylum Records then, a great guy. Bert and I were riding along, riding through a sugar cane field in Kauai with this gal who was a waitress at the place we were staying. She was taking us to somebody's house and we were, y'know, a sunny day, a beautiful day, and we're riding through the cane fields and she says, "Well, there's nobody really home at this place we're going." We said, "Yeah, what do you mean, exactly?" She says, "Well, well, we'll just...let ourselves in." We're saying, "Yeah.." and she says, "Yeah, well, they won't mind...we might have to kind of break in." And I looked around at Bert and said, "Dear Joe", thinking of Joe Smith, who was the head of Asylum Records and our boss, I guess you might say. And I said, "Dear Joe - send lawyers.." Or I said, "Dear Joe" and Bert said, "Send lawyers..." and I said, "and guns..." he said, "and money...."