WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The screen is black and white. A little girl, no taller than the weeds that surround her, stands in a field and picks petals from a delicate daisy. She quietly counts each one.
The Clinton campaign unveiled a new ad Monday featuring the same actress from Lyndon B. Johnson’s infamous 1964 “Daisy” commercial, which warned that the election of GOP nominee Barry Goldwater would ...
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Speaking of extremism, Goldwater himself would learn that extremism in the pursuit of the White House — vice or not — is the most common extremism in politics. This week in 1964, he would be the ...
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Many political analysts believe that the first negative television ad was Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” commercial in 1964. Voters saw a young girl picking daisy petals while an ominous voice counted down ...
2011-12-27T22:02:26-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/48a/302628-m.jpgOn September 7, 1964, at approximately 9:50 p.m. NBC ran an ad for the presidential election ...