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Did you like Ike in 1952? This was one of the first presidential election television ads.
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Added: 2nd October 2007
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Remember this 1984 presidential campaign ad for Ronald Reagan? (It must have worked. He won 49 states.)
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Added: 2nd October 2007
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The great Jackie Gleason leads off a televised fund-raiser for Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
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Added: 3rd October 2007
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Raymond Massey throws his support behind Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964. (Massey was a Canadian. Was he even allowed to vote?)
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Added: 15th October 2007
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One of the most famous trials in American history was the Scopes trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. John T. Scopes, a young science teacher, was charged with violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution. Scopes was quickly relegated to a minor character in the trial as the two lawyers took center stage. Civil liberties groups hired famed defense lawyer Clarence Darrow (on the left) to represent Scopes. The prosecution obtained the services of former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan (right), a renowned creationist and famous orator. The highlight of the trial occurred when Darrow called Bryan to testify as an expert on the Bible. Scopes was eventually found guilty and fined $100. The conviction was later overturned on a paperwork technicality. (Scopes was not at school on the day cited in the charges.) Nevertheless, the Butler Act remained on the books in Tennessee until 1976. The trial inspired the movie Inherit The Wind.
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Added: 16th November 2007
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Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover urges Americans to vote in 1928. It musy have worked. He won.
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Added: 3rd December 2007
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Wendell Willkie was the Republic candidate in the 1940 U.S. presidential election. He interestingly classifies himself as a liberal--but one who opposes FDR's New Deal spending.
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Added: 23rd January 2008
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The infamous headline in the Chicago Daily Tribune that prematurely declared Thomas Dewey the winner of the 1948 U.S. presidential election based on early projections. Harry Truman got a kick out of it.
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Added: 11th February 2008
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Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson is promoted in this 1952 campaign ad. The ad didn't help. He lost badly to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Added: 9th March 2008
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Think presidential election campaigns are nasty now? They're quite tame compared to the good old days. In 1884 the Democrats learned that Republican candidate Grover Cleveland was making chid support payments to a young woman named Maria Halpirn. Cleveland admitted he may have been the child's father, but there were numerous other prominent men who had sampled the horizontal refreshments in the willing Miss Halpirn's boudoir. (Cleveland apparently took responsbility because he was the only bachelor among Miss Halpirn's plentiful beaus!) Democrats mocked Cleveland with the chant, 'Ma! Ma! Where's my pa?' After Cleveland won the election, the Dems added, 'Gone to the White House...ha, ha, ha!'
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Added: 25th April 2008
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