LBJ Daisy ad

This controversial ad won the presidential campaign for Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964. It's quite moving.

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LBJ for education!

[fallingstar888123]

If this was run these days people would be bitchin about the word "God" being used

[mettaliccasux]

Man that is so true. People need to get over it.

[josiesgarden20]

I see using children for politics goes way back!

[generichumor]

A classic ad.

[doctorlieberman]

That's one of the most literate responses I've gotten to a comment on Youtube. Care to provide a source for your claims?

[Watermark0n]

The use of mass herbicides is certainly ethically questionable, but can't be compared to the use of nukes (it is totally disingenuous of you to refer to what would be an unbelievable atrocity and war crime as merely "quickly ending the war"). As for Agent Orange, it wasn't known at the time that its manufacturing process was susceptible to contamination by TCDD, which is horrifically toxic. That is the main controversy with the program, but how was LBJ supposed to take that into account?

[Watermark0n]

That's a bit of an oversimplification. The president is virtually always considered the de facto leader of the party they belong to. However, separation of powers and our bicameral system often creates other independent bases of power in the party that might conflict with the president. This is in contrast to the UK's parliamentary system, where the prime minister is sole leader of the party and practically a dictator unless they are removed, which rarely happens (you *really* have to screw up).

[Watermark0n]

If Goldwater were elected, we wouldn't have to deal with this great debt we have today. Because, after all, who's going to extract the debt from an empty radioactive wilderness? Genius.

[Watermark0n]

...she was two years old. Most children that age can barley string a few words together. Being able to count is pretty good, even if she gets a few numbers off. Likely, though, she was coached and had rote memorized it. I don't know if the mistakes were intentional on the part of the person who coached her, in order to give her childlike appeal, or maybe she just mangled the deliver and the directors decided to go with it afterwards.

[Watermark0n]

What regulation would prevent the showing of a commercial like this?