"Daisy Girl Ad" Plus 23, VIDEO

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal is the ultimate indignity to the democratic process." -Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, 1956

Johnson: Peace Little Girl (Daisy), FULL STREAMING VIDEO

The "Daisy Girl ad," made for the Lyndon Johnson campaign, uses a striking combination of images and sounds to imply that if elected, the Republican candidate, Barry Goldwater, might start a nuclear war.

SMALL CHILD [with flower]: One, two, three, four, five, seven, six, six, eight, nine, nine ....

MAN: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.

[Sounds of exploding bomb.]

JOHNSON: These are the stakes: To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other, or we must die.

ANNOUNCER: Vote for President Johnson on November 3rd. The stakes are too high for you to stay home.

From Move America Forward - "New Ad: “Win in Iraq”- The anti-war crowd is on the run; they failed this weekend with what was supposed to be a big mass protest. Instead of 100,000 people they had less than 5,000 people Now, following the hugely successful MAF pro-troop caravan and Gathering of Eagles rally in Washington D.C., we are taking the next step to send this message to the American people: WE WIN IN IRAQ OR FACE THE TERRORISTS IN AMERICA" Move America Forward

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