Who was Lyndon Johnson's famous ad and opposition to and what did it lead viewers to belive?
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The ad was a black and white (of course) ad of a little blond haired girl--average American kiddo.  She is picking the petals off of a daisy, one by one.  And just before she picks the last petal, you see a mushroom cloud.  \n\nThe ad is leading people to believe that he was not only wreckless with the a-bomb, but also that he was a "baby-killer" so to speak.  The little girl in the ad could have belonged to any American family at that time in history, and for a voter to see "their child" blown away (even though it doesn't show this of course, it is just implied) this was a major shock factor for the parents of America.  \n\nIt was a very effective and memorable ad, as it is still discussed in poli sci classrooms throughout the nation.
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~Actually, as much as I hate to have to say it, just as with Lyndon Johnson, what he has done is within his right under the constitution or enabling legislation.  If you want to complain, that's all well and good but you have to be specific and know what you're talking about.  It's when imbeciles shoot their mouths off out of ignorance that folks like Trickie Dick and Georgie the Younger get their support from the balance of the uninformed hoi poloi.
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I agree with you about them.  But from the commercial's side, you do remember the ad, even it is for the wrong reason.
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I really do not like to think that any of these vice presidents were a heartbeat away so to speak, but I would have to say in my lifetime there were two Lyndon Johnson who stepped in for Kennedy when he was killed and while I do not agree with his politics Gerald Ford, who took over for Nixon when he resigned in disgrace.
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Watch the documentary "The Fog of War" about Robert McNamara who was in Kennedy and Johnson's cabinet.\n\nGives good perspective about that.\n\nU.S. didn't know the enemy well and Johnson was stubborn.\n\nSeems similar to Iraq and Afganistan.
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Kudo's for some good work, although I doubt that many liberals will buy into these facts.  I would like to take issue with one area of contention and that is the Viet Nam war.  It is true that JFK sent in advisors to contain the communists, but it was the old hawk Lydon Baines Johnson that escalated the war and sent in troops.  I believe that Viet Nam was Johnson's war.  After he lost the stomach to continue, when he had Charlie on his knees following the Tet offensive, the old fool announced that he was hanging up his spurs.  Johnson too, was a democrat and a shameless coward.  The loss of that war should  be credited solely to LBJ.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\n \n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass".
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John F. Kennedy (and Lyndon B. Johnson) was the best president of modern times.  He was the youngest ever elected to the presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith, John F. Kennedy won the election of November 1960 by a razor-thin margin, but after taking office he received the support of most Americans. They admired his winning personality, his lively family, his intelligence, and his tireless energy, and they respected his courage in time of decision.\n\nDuring his relatively brief term of office—less than three years—President Kennedy dealt with severe challenges in Cuba, Berlin, and elsewhere. A nuclear test ban treaty in 1963 brought about a relaxation in cold war tensions following a time of severe confrontation early in the administration. Domestically, much of the Kennedy program was unfulfilled, brought to fruition only in the Johnson administration. The U.S. space program, however, surged ahead during the Kennedy administration, scoring dramatic gains that benefited American prestige worldwide.\n\nHe was the last true president of the people. Not to mention, he was cool enough to have an affair with Marilyn Monroe...
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As the others have answered... Dr. Dolittle (1967)\n\nYou can review an image  here:\nhttp://imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1039/Mptv/1039/1336-14.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0061584
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wow, look at the answers.  Someone telling you to read an article in rolling stone (since musicians are the best source for politics), and someone telling you to watch michael moores movie.\n\nUnfreakingbelievable!  Is this where you liberals get your information?  From a movie, and music magazine?\nMovie is full of lies.  That is a fact, and has been proven so.  That is why it does not carry the name of 'documentary' anymore.  Rollingstone is as far left as you can find, so no, I will not read 'a good article' out of there.  what makes it a 'good article'?  Because you want to believe it?\n\nbtw, whoever said approval rate was 22.  we know how much you love your polls (many proven to be bias), but it was never that low.  last week it was around 40.\n\n---\n\nwhy do you liberals ignore the military votes not accepted in florida?  You find a few old people who say things like, "I meant to vote for Kerry, but I voted for Bush".  Somehow when they were looking at the ballot, they voted wrong, but they remember voting wrong so clearly.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass."\n\nInterestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the "Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed, but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.\n\nLater, Nast used the donkey to portray what he called "Caesarism" showing the alleged Democratic uneasiness over a possible third term for Ulysses S. Grant. In conjunction with this issue, Nast helped associate the elephant with the Republican party. Although the elephant had been connected with the Republican party in cartoons that appeared in 1860 and 1872, it was Nast's cartoon in 1874 published by Harper's Weekly that made the pachyderm stick as the Republican's symbol. A cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic," showed animals representing various issues running away from a donkey wearing a lion's skin tagged "Caesarism." The elephant labeled "The Republican Vote," was about to run into a pit containing inflation, chaos, repudiation, etc.\n\nBy 1880 the donkey was well established as a mascot for the Democratic party. A cartoon about the Garfield-Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders.\n\nOver the years, the donkey and the elephant have become the accepted symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although the Democrats have never officially adopted the donkey as a party symbol, they have used various donkey designs on publications over the years. The Republicans have actually adopted the elephant as their official symbol and use their design widely.\n\nThe Democrats think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, pompous and conservative -- but the Republicans think it is dignified, strong and intelligent. On the other hand, the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous -- but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.
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Calgon\n\nThe other famous advertisement is the commercial for Calgon water softener. A Caucasian woman with an American accent asks "Mr. Lee" (who owns a laundry shop) how he gets her shirts so clean. He replies, with what appears to be a Chinese accent "Ancient Chinese secret." The scene changes to Mrs. Lee, who is in an adjoining room. Mrs. Lee is also ethnically Chinese, but she speaks English with a thoroughly American accent, and explains to the audience that her husband's "ancient Chinese secret" is that he uses Calgon water softener. Mrs. Lee ultimately gives the secret away by sticking her head into the front room where Mr. Lee and the customer are standing, and shouts "We need more Calgon!" To which the customer replies "Ancient, Chinese secret, huh!" This commercial is one also remembered by people many years after it has aired. It has been viewed by some groups as continuing a stereotype that all laundry services are run by Chinese immigrants, but it could equally be viewed as a satire of that stereotype. In addition, this commercial was parodied in the television series Arrested Development (the "Sword of Destiny" episode from season 2).
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Maybe "Boycott"?\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255851/
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According to the Democrat party someone called Johnson a Jackass, and he adopted the donkey (actually a Jackass) as his symbol. It stuck.
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It's not clear where the donkey came from, but it's believed that in the 1828 campaign, Andrew Jackson's opponent started calling him "Andrew Jackass". Rather than rebelling, Jackson latched onto the name. \n\nThe image resurfaced in the 1830s and again in a political cartoon by Thomas Nast, which depicted "a live donkey kicking a dead lion."  A few years after that, Nast depicted the Republicans as an elephant stomping on the flimsy planks of the Democrats.\n\nNast's images tended to stick in the public's minds (he's the guy who also created our modern-day conception of Santa Claus), so the symbols stuck after that.
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When Andrew Jackson ran for president in 1828, his opponents tried to label him a "jackass" for his populist views and his slogan, "Let the people rule." Jackson, however, picked up on their name calling and turned it to his own advantage by using the donkey on his campaign posters. During his presidency, the donkey was used to represent Jackson's stubbornness when he vetoed re-chartering the National Bank.\n\nThe first time the donkey was used in a political cartoon to represent the Democratic party, it was again in conjunction with Jackson. Although in 1837 Jackson was retired, he still thought of himself as the Party's leader and was shown trying to get the donkey to go where he wanted it to go. The cartoon was titled "A Modern Baalim and his Ass".\n\nInterestingly enough, the person credited with getting the donkey widely accepted as the Democratic party's symbol probably had no knowledge of the prior associations. Thomas Nast, a famous political cartoonist, came to the United States with his parents in 1840 when he was six. He first used the donkey in an 1870 Harper's Weekly cartoon to represent the "Copperhead Press" kicking a dead lion, symbolizing Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, who had recently died. Nast intended the donkey to represent an anti-war faction with whom he disagreed , but the symbol caught the public's fancy and the cartoonist continued using it to indicate some Democratic editors and newspapers.\n\nLater, Nast used the donkey to portray what he called "Caesarism" showing the alleged Democratic uneasiness over a possible third term for Ulysses S. Grant. In conjunction with this issue, Nast helped associate the elephant with the Republican party. Although the elephant had been connected with the Republican party in cartoons that appeared in 1860 and 1872, it was Nast's cartoon in 1874 published by Harper's Weekly that made the pachyderm stick as the Republican's symbol. A cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic," showed animals representing various issues running away from a donkey wearing a lion's skin tagged "Caesarism." The elephant labeled "The Republican Vote," was about to run into a pit containing inflation, chaos, repudiation, etc..\n\nBy 1880 the donkey was well established as a mascot for the Democratic party. A cartoon about the Garfield-Hancock campaign in the New York Daily Graphic showed the Democratic candidate mounted on a donkey, leading a procession of crusaders.\n\nOver the years, the donkey and the elephant have become the accepted symbols of the Democratic and Republican parties. Although the Democrats have never officially adopted the donkey as a party symbol, we have used various donkey designs on publications over the years. The Republicans have actually adopted the elephant as their official symbol and use their design widely.\n\nThe Democrats think of the elephant as bungling, stupid, pompous and conservative -- but the Republicans think it is dignified, strong and intelligent. On the other hand, the Republicans regard the donkey as stubborn, silly and ridiculous -- but the Democrats claim it is humble, homely, smart, courageous and loveable.\n\nAdlai Stevenson provided one of the most clever descriptions of the Republican's symbol when he said, "The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor."
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LBJ:  Very into social progams (called the Great Societies).  Started the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs.  Into taxes and unpopular wars.  Pro-civil rights\nReagan:  Started what is now called the Reagan Revolution, and reinvented conservativism.  Supported trickle down economics (called Reaganomics) in which the wealthiest get their taxes cut so they'll put it back into the economy.  Spent a lot of money on weapons building, and defeated communism.  Anti-death of babies due to abortion.\n\nClinton- pro-taxes, pro-abortion, anti-guns, anti-morals, pro-lying, loved Nixon's illegal activities (and copied many :)).  Came up with the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy in the military, allowing gay people as long as they weren't openly gay.  He screwed up when he asked Congress to pass DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), legally defining marriage as something between a man and a woman.