Like for president. You like ike, you like ike, everybody likes i we dont want jobs. Then do not pick john. [singing] we all go with ike. You like ike. I like ike. Everybody likes ike. Now is the time for all good americans to come to the aid of their country. Like for president. Ike for president. Ike for president. Ike. Bob. Ike. Bob. I am so glad we are friends again, bob. Yes, ike. We agree on everything. Lets never subverted again, bob. Bob. Ike. Bob. Ike, bob will ike and bob live happily ever after . Is the white house made enough for both of them . Stay tuned for a musical interlude. Ive been thinking, bob and ike now think alike. Will the. With a general in the white house, who will give the orders . It is a joint production of American History tv on cspan3 and cspans washington journal. We are pleased to be joined by Professor Robert mann, professor of Mass Communications at Louisiana State university, and author of mushroom clouds. To take a look at the history of tv political advertising. Professor mann, thanks for joining us here . Good to be with you this morning. Host we start with 1952, the first Year Television was used as a medium for political ads. Television had been used a little bit in 1948 to broadcast the Democratic Convention. Harry truman made a speech from new jersey in the latter part of the race in 1948 and it was aired on original television linked up along the east coast. But 1952 is the first time you saw candidates advertising in a way that was not just a beach. Even though we are going to see 60ot of spots this morning, and 32nd spots, it is important to remember that 1952, 1956 and 1960, the candidates saw television as a way to give speeches. 1952, even though Adlai Stevenson, the democratic nominee, and Dwight Eisenhower, the republican nominee were airing some spot of advertising, the vast majority of the people seeing them, suddenly for stevenson, were seeing him give 30minute speeches. 1830minute speeches at 10 30 last night on tuesdays and thursdays in the latter part of the campaign. Both candidates were very reluctant to do this kind of spot advertising. They saw politics as being more saw spots as the way to sell soup, soap them and serial, not lofty political ideas. Host we will see a lot of ads in the next hour and a half here mann fromssor bob lsu. We welcome your calls, your comments and your questions on ads that are politically notable for you. We have opened up the lines. For republicans, it is 2027488001, democrats, 2027488000, and independents, 2027488002. It is fair to say that eisenhower and stevenson had to be pushed to do advertising, correct . Yes. there was an advertising executive who was fairly prominent, Fairly Famous for his innovations at the time. Russell reeves. He was hired by the eisenhower campaign to manage their advertisers. At the time eisenhower and his people thought it would just be speeches. Reeves looks at one of the speeches, i think it was his announcement speech early in the campaign, and made two major conclusions. That eisenhower was a terrible speaker and that these 30 minute speeches were too complex. People left the speech is not having a single idea of what he was about. It was a jumble of issues. So he persuaded eisenhower to do this spot advertising. The major way that people were seeing eisenhower spots was not this animated spot, the jingle saw, which was interesting and a lot of people enjoy watching it because it recognizes the First Political spot. But most eisenhower spots were these 22nd eisenhower answers spots where he would just look at the camera and answer questions from average people off the street. Eisenhower thought it was humiliating. Hisenson thought thoughts were a humiliating exercise that degraded the candidacy and the office of the president. Host two questions about the ads we just saw for eisenhower and stevenson. One, the donkeys in the animated ad for thencandidate eisenhower, kind of a negative ad in that regard. Two, who is bob in the Adlai Stevenson add . Guest so the donkeys you see riding the elevator backwards, which as you point out is that of a subtle negative ad, that is the democratic senator from alabama who was adlai theensons running mate, natural son secretary of state under truman, who was much reviled by conservatives and andblicans dean addison, stevenson, the nominee. In the other ad, bob was bob taft, leader of the conservative republicans and senator from. Hio, son of president taft before eisenhower ran against , he was his main opponent for the nomination in 1952. To win tafts support, he said he would support him in his agenda and even promised he patronage. Taft some democrats called about the great surrender. That eisenhower had surrendered to taft and taft was controlling the nominee. So the point of that spot is that they have fallen in love and taft has captured eisenhower and he will be the power behind the throne if eisenhower is elected president. Host the title of your book is daisy petals and mushroom clouds. Based on the daisy ads. Lets go to the 1964 ad by the campaign and followed by the ads from the Goldwater Campaign. 1, 2, 3, four, five, 7, 9, 9 , 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. [explosion] these are the stakes. To make a world in which all of gods children can live or to go into the darkness. Othert either love each or we must die. Boat for president johnson on november 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home. For president johnson on november 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home. [dramatic music] graft swindles juvenile delinquency crime riots here what Barry Goldwater has to say about our lack of moral leadership. The leadership of this nation has a clear and immediate challenge to go to work effectively and go to work immediately to restore proper respect for law and order in this land and not just prior to election day either. Americas greatness, its greatness of her people. Let this generation been making you mark for the greatness. Let this generation of americans said i a standard of this possibility that will inspire the world. In your heart, you know he is right. Vote for Barry Goldwater. Host there is a lot of there. Start with the daisy ad antenna less the tenor of the times. 1964, why that ad came about and tell us the tenor of the , 1964, and why the add came about. Guest the atmosphere in the country in that time, we were still in the shadow of the cuban missile crisis. We were still armed to the teeth , facing the soviet union which was also armed to the teeth with their weapons. People at the time were really cheerful that the soviet union in the United States, even though the cuban missile crisis had been resolved, that we would still end up going to war and it would not be a conventional land war, it would he a nuclear war that would destroy much of the world. In that environment comes along coldwater, a very prominent leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party since the 1950s, republican senator from arizona, who is using a lot of the other close language. When kennedy announces them was when kennedy announces them whe the loan shark, he calls Nuclear Bombs just another weapon. He suggests that we should defol iate the ho chi minh trail in vietnam using nuclear weapons. He made a lot of comments like that a lot of the years that suggested he was reckless and was not serious about the responsibility of being president would it came to using nuclear weapons. So people already knew his position on that. That is why he takes advantage. It is clever because it doesnt mention goldwater. To. Idnt need people who created that spot realized all they had to do was give a story and let the viewers do the work. Let the viewers fell in the blanks with the information and the knowledge and the emotion spot. Hey brought to the that is what makes it so groundbreaking and so clever and i think so effective. Hey put the viewers to work it didnt give them a lot of information. It assumed they had a lot of information and used that information in a clever way. Host is it correct that the daisy ad only run once on television. Is only run once on the night of september 7, 1964. Were threeys there networks, so probably about 4050,000,000 people saw that ad the one time it aired. It wasnt unusual to run the spot a couple of times and move on to something else. The spot did air on several network news broadcasts it into in its entirety later week. Republican Party Officials told her to it, so it made news, which ensured it got a free ride in the networks for the next week. I am guessing between 70 and 100 Million People saw it by the in of the week. Host it is interesting, we always associate Richard Nixon with the law and order campaign. But in goldwaters ad, that is his message. Guest yes. That spot you saw there is a distillation of 30 minutes of a documentary that the Goldwater Campaign had created called choice. They planned to air it is a paid Political Program on national television. Goldwater saw it and said it was a racist spots. He spotted from being stopped it from being run on national television. It did get one on local Television Commercials and at house parties. This 32ndned into spot which was trying to take advantage of the anxiety in the public about civil unrest. Lyndon johnson had become president on the death of john f. Kennedy and was seen by a lot of republicans as having added to the and caused a little moral degradation of the country area and the civil rights movement, there werent a lot of protests over the vietnam war at the time. But all this unrest and unsettled environment was growing and conservatives were nervous and scared about it. s campaign was trying to take advantage of that fear and growing unease with a certain percentage of the population. We are looking at the history of president ial Campaign Advertising here on American History tv on cspan three, in a joint production with cspans washington journal. We will get to your phone calls momentarily. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488002. Of your said the American Culture was more conservative th. His observation. Guest from 1952 through 19 64, infancy is the right word to use. Doing thiswho were stuff for politicians were really expand menton. They didnt know what they were doing they were experimenting. They didnt know what they were doing. Today you can hire a company that specializes in producing political spots they, rely on Public Opinion research and focus groups. They didnt know anything about that. These are mostly technicians producing these spots. They were people who arranged the presentation of a 30minute speech or a 45minute installation of a speech on the air. It was not until the madison the copy account to do Lyndon Johnsons campaign not true Creative Advertising principles were brought to president ial campaigns. The reason i wrote my book about this is that this is the hinge moment in american political advertising when everybody saw, oh, this is how it is done, this is how you advertise political ideas, this is how you create spots that are interesting, that are clever and that put the viewers information to work, that involve the viewer, not just passive experience. If you look at the spots before 1964 and 1968 and ford, you can see that there is a moment in time where everything changes. Host lets hear from our callers. First to brand in jacksonville, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. How are you doing . Guest good, thank you. I just have a question about the modern day president ial commercials. Me biden, youto said he ran for president because of the fine people comments by President Trump. Off rightms to cut after that line spoken that he condemned White Supremacists and neo nazis. That is always left out. You know what im saying . Host ok, brent. Professor mann, what are your observations of modern day 2020 adds, versus what were seeing 1964 . R in 1952 and guest it is a torrent of ads today and targeted in a way they werent in those days. 1964, the daisy ad, the goldwater ad we saw was meant to be in mostly on a National Giving them, there were certainly swing states more often than we have today but they were just broadcast, meant for most everyone to see them. They were not targeted. Today you see a much more finely sliced and diced electorate based on the profiling and that theseolling candidates and their camping to do. So when you see an ad especially online, just scrolling through the internet on the website, that is usually an ad that was intended exactly for you or a person just like you. Did was not meant for your neighbor. It may not even have been meant for your spouse or children. It may have been meant for you especially either because of your shopping behavior. Your registration or where you live. The ads are much more targeted to people. It doesnt mean they always hit the mark, but other than the differences, that is the main difference in advertising today as opposed to 1964 and before the invention of internet. Host lets hear from john in pennsylvania, good morning. Caller just curious from doing the research. At history inking 1961, president kennedy did a speech at the waldorfastoria called the presidency and the press. Aring the same era, you had edward r morrow folks talking about the media and its value to society. Both those folks talked about how the media was not used properly to educate the American People about the issues of the day. So i am just curious about the speakers thoughts. He has done a lot of research on ads. E were those men right, when they say that we were not using television to educate that just to amuse and entertain . Even in the realm of political ads, it seems that is where we have gotten to as opposed to providing useful or helpful education. I am curious what the guest thinks. Guest that is a really good question. I would say they were not so much right that they were prescient. 1960s,arly to mid there was an advantage and a disadvantage. You may not have had a lot of access to different sources of news on the three major networks, maybe you had a couple of local newspapers and some radio news, but there was a generally agreed upon there were generally agreedupon facts. If something happened, every american should of had the basic understanding of that. It just was the way it is. Dontwe are now, and i have to belabor this point, but we are a totally Fragmented Society depending on your political views or your lifestyle. You are getting your views one way and your neighbor is getting his or her to use another way. There is no agreedupon facts about anything. We are in our silos. We dont talk to each other. We are not hearing the same hing were talking about th same thing. Personally i am not sure that is a good thing. But it is what it is. Those werenedy and probably prescient. Maybe they saw what was coming or they were criticizing something they certainly did not anticipate the internet, but are. We host lets go to a tame in north chicago, illinois, on a independent line. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and mr. Mann. The question has to do with the rules and ethics of political campaigns, president ial campaigns. Historically and up until especially the present day, is there a commission or a set of rules that campaigns must follow adsake sure the campaign or outside ofrly slander . Guest excellent question. In the 1960s, there was a federal commission, a nonpartisan commission that did not have a whole lot of teeth to it but it could make some judgments and pronouncements and wasare that this spot unfair or maybe embarrass a candidate into removing an ad or changing an ad. But the prevailing the prevailing rules since the have beentelevision the federal Elections Commission and the principle enshrined in our law and the constitution that the political speech is the most highly protected form of speech. Candidates have generally been able to say whatever they want to say in their ads and television stations cannot and this goes to broadcast television, cannot censor those. They cant tell them that you cant say that. It is a highly protected form of speech. Candidates are mostly governed by the judgment of voters and the people, if i say this, it is not that it is wrong or illegal, it is will the voters react horribly to it . Will it backfire on me . That is the main check that candidates and the candidate committees, not third Party Committees which are under rules, but candidates can pretty much. Host say whatever. Host they want more of your calls momentarily and some comments and questions on text and twitter in a moment, on this joint production on the history of Television Campaign ads in president ial races. Lets move on to two ads from the 1968 campaign. [video clip] [tense music] it is time for an honest look at the problem of order in the United States. Dissent is a necessary ingredient of change. But in a system of government that provides for a peaceful change, there is no cause that justifies resort to violence. Let us recognize that the first civil right of every american is to be free from domestic violence. So i pledge to you, we shall have order in the United States. [laughter] host bob, first on the nixon ad, the tagline, vote like your whole world depended on it. That was very reflective of the goldwater ad in your heart, you know he is right here guest i love the goldwater statement. Groupally have to focus year tagline, because it didnt take the Johnson Campaign five minutes to respond to, in your heart, you know he is right, with the joinder in your guts, or in your is nuts, heart, you know he might. [laughter] it is a reflection of the sense that republicans and conservatives had that the world was coming apart. Traditional conservative, this desire for law and order. It has been a way of expressing time. Or a very long host one observation on that tagline from twitter from inhia, she says, 1964s your heart, you know he is right becomes suburbs under threat in 2020. Did people get that ad the mocking of the ad, of spiro agnew . Guest yes and no. It is in the same spirit of the daisy ad in that it is using knowledge, information, emotions that voters already have. Or at least it is trying to. The voters are expected to do some of the work. 1968,gnew of october of in the voters mind, was certainly not the agony of 1974. But there were questions agnew ofy not the agon 1974 in the voters mind. He was making statements that were mildly embarrassing to the republicans. He was a largely unknown person. It was just a way of ridiculing, calling him a lightweight or an unknown. I think that spot probably would have had much more resonance if you had run it in 1972 or 1974 than 1968. Host question for you from robert in clearwater, florida. He asks, how much did a commercial cost in the 1950s and 1960s to run . Guest excellent question. It depends. It are going to depends what show you are running it in. A little bit dependent on your production costs. The daisy girl spot, it cost 25,000 to buy the time on mbc to run it for one minute, and probably another 10,000 to 20,000 to produce. I cant imagine what that would be in 2020, but it was not cheap. It still is not cheap to buy one man of time on Network Television that is why you dont. Necessarily that is why you dont see a lot of spots. Candidates prefer going to local media markets where they can get cheaper time and more efficiency for their money. Host kathy in gainesville, new york, on the republican line. Caller thank you for the trip down memory lane. Looking back, so much has changed since the early days. The media also plays a role in it. News was much less opinions. We just had newspapers and television and radio. I love the president ial advertisements, but i do still keep in mind that their advertisements. I was wondering, since so much has changed with social and everything, how many people do you think are really affected with these ads . Are they worth the money spent on them . Has that changed from the 1950s when it started till now . Guest and that is the essential question of this, what difference does it make . Thearted out in my book on daisy girl spot thinking it destroyed Barry Goldwaters candidacy. What i found is that it didnt. It had very little impact, before that spot aired, goldwater was going to lose the race. After that spot, and very rough spots to Johnson Campaign aired some of the race was virtually unchanged. Goldwater was cruising to lose. Historic margin. I think even to davies as are not as effective or determinative as you think. 3 , 4 of the voters are undecided. The candidates are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and get a small percentage of, many of whom may not vote at all. I think they are impervious to this stuff, but candidates have been doing this for time immemorial and i think a lot of campaigns do it because they dont know what else to do. Congressional races, mayors races, i think we do make a difference. Many voters do not have a lot of information about the candidates. Airing less and less political news, so a lot of information that voters get is not from the media. They get it from the campaign commercials. Thats a sad fact. Don in oklahoma independent line. Caller yes, robert, i have several questions. One thing you said that biden run in the last segment about blaming trump for all of the virus gas, which he did the best he could. He did much better than biden ever would or obama. He refers to how many empty chairs there is at the table, but i just wonder, how many of these into chairs are little high chairs that the democrats are putting at these tables. Another thing about the replacement of the Supreme Court justice you gom going to let there. We are focusing on the history of Residential Campaign tv ad. Richland, washington, democrat line. Morning. Ood when you show that commercial it took me back to when i was seven years old and its amazing, its amazing. Not the first part of it, of course, but the second part and i always wondered why i was so scared of nuclear war, but the ,ther thing i want to ask you but it seems like during the whens, didnt used to be Johnny Carson and all the other people used to be on what are my china to say . What am i trying to say . If trump and biden were both running, did they have to have the same, exact time . One could not have more time than the other one on tv . Thanks, mary. Equal time is what i think she is referring to. That is why wed did not have debates for a while, the fairness doctrine. Haven johnson would insisted on every thirdparty candidate being on the stage. That was a big factor, having politicians on, Richard Nixon was going to come on you had to to the time in some fashion hubert humphrey. Well have that anymore because he recognized news organizations can use their judgment and most people are pretty happy with giving the media organizations the ability to make that decision rather than having the federal government impose on both sides. A question on the broader issue of advertising from bob in tennessee. Dr. Ann point will compare the evolution of campaign ads to trends in commercial tv ads over the same time . Guest that a very interesting question. Product advertising always leads the way and i think that is because i have thought about its a lot, and ive decided is bars of soap cannot talk back. O the advertising executive politicians can and do and liberals and conservatives tend to be very conservative with a c when it comes to their image and the messages and tactics they are willing to use why bothads which is Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower were very reluctant to go on tv and do spot advertising because they want to be dignified. They dont want to do something that is undignified or boomerangs on them. If you want to know where political advertising is going, sometimes if you see where product advertising is today, that is where political advertising might be in five or 10 years. We are talking about president ial campaign advertisement. American history tv is on cspan3 every weekend. E on washington journal a coproduction as well. 1980, jimmy carter running against Ronald Reagan. Here is a look. [video clip] no matter how , the president cannot avoid making a decision. Thats the only way president ial decision can be made. President carter. And deeply, deeply resent attacksded by the present carter has made a my husband, his attempt to paint my husband is a man he is not. He is not a warmonger, he is not a man who will throw the elderly on the streets. Thats a terrible thing to do and to say about anybody. That is campaigning on fear. There are many issues at stake. I would like mr. Carter to explain to me why inflation is as high as it is, why unemployment is as high as it is. I would like him to explain the policyting, week foreign so our friends overseas do not know if we will stand up for them or not. The issue of this campaign is his record. The time is now for strong leadership. My First Impression of the jimmy carter ad is it is dark. He got a fair amount of pushback from using the oval office in a political campaign, did he not . Absolutely. Proper, and seen as President Trump gets criticism for the Campaign Events he has held at the white house as if this is the first time it has been done. Jimmy carter did it. There is another spot that showed him on air force one. He not only used the oval office in that spot, there was another spot where he was sitting at his oval office desk. It looks like he was bowing his head. What were seeing now is not exactly new. Nancy reagan, i was very was an actress. That was her career. Was she the first potential future first lady, president ial candidate spouse to appear in an ad . Im not aware of another. Lyndon johnson had an ad that had him standing next to lady retrained tobird Andrews Air Force base after the assassination of president kennedy, but this is the first one im aware of that the candidates wife is speaking talking, not only about how wonderful her husbands, but it is an effective use of the president of the candidates secular candidate which softens the blow. Here is Ronald Reagans campaign saying that jimmy carter is attacking us, its unfair and she pivots to attacking jimmy carter. Seenense was they could be as attacking the other. The other thing about that spot is she isfective, clearly not reading from teleprompter when you see the candidate clearly conversing, i think they are always more effective. Host her message is a substantive policy criticism of vacillating Foreign Policy. She talks about jimmy carter, allies overseas, which as a reflection of the current tone of the 2020. Ampaign that is the thing about the spots. Go look at those. At howld be gob smacked the themes are still the themes we are talking about today high energy prices, corruption. N government these are not old issues. Peopled close, different wearing them. We will go to the phones now. Yes, i am talking about joe biden being on tv so much. I called the Cable Company because all i see when i sit down um 84 years old. Tellinge is joe biden his lies. That man lies so bad and they talk about trump. His wife getting killed in baby, and he was in the hospital, and then he found out one of his sons of cancer, four years later host all right, so robert, democrats line. Good morning. Im calling because there is one thing that we have not discussed, which is how much money is going to these networks and television stations and like that. Theres so much of this money that we are donating to the campaigns, we are donating it to the campaign and its a little ridiculous. I feel like there must be a better way to do this with some sort of public thing and short time and things like that. That is what i have to say. Host ok, robert. Guest i could not agree more. I did this year was one my classes. Four years ago i took 10 or so battleground states and looked at what the undecided was in polls and how much money the campaigns were spending in those states to try to influence that 3 or 4 that was undecided and you look at the cost per vote, how many hundreds of millions to influencent this very small slice of the electorate. If you are undecided at this point, you are really undecided between the challenger and not voting at all. Smarter toould be put that money into organizing and more direct voter contact. Thats the kind of labor that takes years. Most of this money is raised in the last few months of the campaign. They really needed in april and march to be doing the kind of work that you need to be doing. When you get 10 million dumped three weeks before the election, theres only a few things you can do with it and that stump it into advertising. Host i have to death of two of roberts books and recommend him to everyone. Question as the guest in a daisy petals commercial comparable power in this election or any other . Guest power i think its solidified votes against Barry Goldwater, but i think the daisy powerful because it change the way that we thought about political completely, it revolutionized political. Dvertising, so i would say no maybe we will see this shortly, the 1984 morning in america. Pots Ronald Reagan ran that spot is comparable in some s 1984, its search for that morning in america ad. Lets take a look. [video clip] morning again in america. Today more men and women will go than ever before in our Nation History with Interest Rates at half the record highs of 1980. Homesamilies will buy new than in any time in the last four years. This afternoon, 6500 young men and women will be married and with inflation less than half of what it was four years ago, they can look forward with confidence to the future. Its morning again in america and under the leadership of president reagan, our country is stronger and better why would we ever better. Why would we ever want to return to where we were four short . Ears ago there is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others dont see it at all. Some say the bear is tame. Others say is vicious and dangerous. Isce no one can be sure who right, isnt it smart to be as strong as the bear if there is a bear . Teach your parents well them u ever let you just look at them and sigh and know they love you to morningoing back in america, being a fan of voices, he may have done campbells soup and everything. He was very familiar voice a very clear voice of the time. It seemed to have everything you needed. Yes, it really did. I think that is one of the best spots and i think you could argue i have not looked at the polling, but i think you could argue that that spot was spot. An effective maybe it didnt win votes, but it was made to confirm the general feeling that people in thatnited states had things were better and they were better because of reagans policies. Certainly not everyone would have argued that was the state of the country, but it did summarize the zeitgeist and reinforce peoples feelings that things are moving in the right direction and it goes to what i was saying earlier about using the madison avenue check me. They used the pepsi ad using. Lmost the exact same images it was really the culmination of the marriage between washington political advertising and madison avenue. And on the mondale spot, obviously some echoes of the daisy at of 1964, but the use of that sum, it was one of these first times that a music group gave permission for a campaign to use what was a hit song of theirs. Music was clearly from the beginning im not aware of any other spot. I am not aware of any other spot. Nixons campaign used a lot to doubt in pennsylvania. Caller wasnt bill moyers strongly associated with ad . Loping the daisy right now its pretty obvious that they are strongly associated with helping the Democratic Party. Bill moyers was one of the most trusted aides that Lyndon Johnson. He was tangentially involved in the daisy girl add. It was produced by the madison still a prominent advertising term firm. They produced that ad and brought it to Lyndon Johnson to to show tought it Lyndon Johnson and his people. Johnson started to get some phone calls from friends who are reacting to the spot, some of them reacting negatively and moyers is called to the second floor of the white house and johnson makes quite a production moyers downing about the spot and telling him to look into this. He turns, goes back to the elevator. Moyers says that johnson follows him to the elevator instead, do you think we really only run it once . Johnson was recognizing it was a good spot. Moyers may have been in on the decision to tell them not to air it again but he is nothing to do with its creation. Bob, democrats line. Caller hello, good morning. Yes, i want to comment. I guess im old enough to remember how things were back in 19 64 and i remember in 1964 ad, it wase daisy very effective, but it was also. Eally accurate at the time, goldwater, he was very radical about the use of nuclear weapons. He was also a racist, which people do not bring up, but he was. He voted against the 1964 voting or the 1965 ad, but he voted no and he was a known. Acist workeds in the deficit in the Southern States and many people in the Democratic Party switched parties and aligned with the southern republicans. But from that point on, the next agnew, hewith nixon did have serious problems. I think it was pretty well known and that is why that ad was so effective back then. Host all right, bob. Robert mann. 1964. To his point about there was a lot of knowledge in the voters minds about goldwaters minds. Campaign believed that that that they would focus on that. Theirey came up with that the United States fear going to war with the soviet union. Oft was going to be a flight spots attacking goldwater over became for five spots that attacked him on the issue of nuclear war and proliferation. Riotsk they probably were , it was a more effective message to put forth because of voters were just much more aware of where goldwater stood on nuclear war men where he stood on civil rights. Outearnment from oklahoma. He says, please keep in mind that many families did not own televisions at the time that the ad was in the timeframe being discussed. Were talk about where we in 1952 versus 1980. In 1952 very about million homes with televisions in them. Had roughly one television. By 19641968, 1970s, 1980s, every home had a television. It was really total saturation. Even today there are people who televisions, but remember it in those days all you had to do was have an antenna. You did not have to pay for cable. Maybe people in rural areas to get the kind of reception people did not pay for cable back in 1964, 1972 areas host 1972. Host but we are glad that they are paying for it now. We have the Mass Communications professor from Louisiana State university. Lets move ahead to the 1988 race of george h. W. Bush and michael dukakis. [video clip] bush and a cup of some crime. Supports the Death Penalty for murderers. Willie horton received 10 weekend passes run prison. He kidnapped a young couple, stabbing the man and repeatedly raping his government. Weekend prison passes, dukakis on crime. George bush talks about prison furloughs, but he will not tell you that the Massachusetts Program was bushed by republican and will not talk about this drug dealerler that was furlough. The real story on for those is george bush has taken a furlough from the truth. Host who is behind the infamous Willie Horton ad . That ad was produced by a thirdparty Political Organization that was very closely aligned with the Republican Party, called the National Security back. When it was taken off, the Bush Campaign immediately went on the there isuch more aprogram that showed revolving door, people going into prison and coming out of prison and mentioned Willie Horton or it Willie Horton was not the only figure discussed in that spot, but it was based on the Willie Horton spot. A lot of people confuse the two. They think the first spot was a bush ad. It really wasnt, but there was some either spoken or unspoken coordination because they were so closely aligned. I think its fair to say, worth pointing out that Willie Horton or at least not Willie Horton specifically, it was raised earlier in the primaries by out gore who was running for the democratic nomination against michael dukakis. He raised the furlough issue first and inspect it up. Dukakis use the revolving door imagery in the ponse, didnt they . Guest didnt they . Guest that is something i have seen curious. A lot of political and gators to tell the candidate, do not but i do notarge, know that it would be incompetent, but it was a poorly. Un campaign in so many ways the Dukakis Campaign waited too long to respond. And aike one spot showing few minutes later, you see another spot on television, it was several weeks before dukakis figured out how to respond and that was the story of the. Ukakis campaign they delete and allete over them. You saw bill Clinton Institute for war room. Dukakis was caught flatfooted and he never really recovered from the furlough spots and the ranr spots that bush against him. Was a National Voice over artist name of mary lemmon the people who did these ads, did they ever have a disadvantage in terms of them being labeled one Political Party or the other . You know, i dont know. I have not heard of anyone being labeled. It may be the case. This is something i did not mention early on. Remember earlier when we show that bob and ike spot, both of , theoices were mel blanc voice of bugs bunny and elmer five and the other spots, i like ike was the spot produced by disney, roy disney, walt disneys brother. There are these great examples of prominent people, well known voice actors and maybe do not get the credit they deserve, and they might not often want the credit. Was actors, i understand are generally doing it or the paycheck. Consultants are looking for a particular kind of voice, not the new agrees with the politics area politics. Host letter from art in tennessee. Good morning. Caller good morning. [indiscernible] about theuestion progression apologize. I your phone is really breaking up. Maybe try telling that can. Rocky on the republican line. I want to make a statement with regard to view use of the moneys that democrats get released and used for these commercials, they would be better used for the people in this world who are without the money so they could live a decent life, like they are. Upposed to be thats all it got to say. God bless you. Man,n, your response ann, your response. Of timee spend a lot talking about the cost. Its a fraction of what spends. A you look at the total amount of money that is spent on Advertising Products of all. Tripes across the board the amount of political advertising is a drop in the bucket. By the time election day comes along, you feel like you have seen nothing but political ads, but they are really concentrated and it magnifies in the voters minds much money is been spent. Relatively speaking, its not that much. Welcome our viewers from the u. K. And are partnership with the Bbc Parliament channel. This is dennis. Hi there. Caller good morning. Againstuccessfully one won against republican Voter Suppression, it always seems like his republicans suppressing the boat. Have you ever seen evidence of the democrats trying to suppress the vote . First of all, dennis, you should be a voice actor. You have a great voice. You should consider narrating a spot. Thats a good question. I think what you see right now votery dont use the word suppression so much. Its public and mostly talking about that. I think its generally agreed maybe is not accurately accurate, but the generally leads a position that the more people who vote, the better it is marginally for democrats. Democrats tend to turn out more in big elections, in andidential election years margins. E small re political advertising its talking around the question little bit, but i would like to bring it back there is a sense that has been in political thatce for a long time depressesdvertising turnout. If we can make the campaign as nasty as possible, people will be turned off. There used to be a sense that republicans and some democrats would want you to be disgusted and walk away and that is what we had so Much Negative advertising. Dont think thats the case at it used to be seen as Voter Suppression tool. Host a comment this is can you comment on this as brand reinforcement versus renting upon it by going negative. Interesting that the media is the and is the state, yet election years or boom years in revenue for media companies, boards billions of dollars pumped into Companies Whose boards and leadership are deeply conservative coming at the frontline employees are accused of being biased. It may be sounds like i am contradicting myself a little bit. These tv stations are happy to. Ave that money i am not diminishing the impact. Although, if you are living in a , you are probably not seeing as many ads for trial lawyers and car dealers. You will start seeing those november 4. Host therst question difference between branding and attacking. Guest thats a great question. This bioe will see spot that al gore ran we may see one that john kerry runs in 2004 it used to be really common the candidates would run these minute long bio spots. George h w bush ran one in 1988. Just sort of introduce myself to. He voters sort of brand myself you dont seeing those so much anymore. On the local level, the state and local level, its very common to see these spots as an effort to brand and heres the other part of it. The opposition, bill clinton did this in 1996 famously to bob dole, started early, early, early in the year, earlier than most president ial candidates do, advertising attack spots to brand him, to label him before he could do it for himself. Host we will get to those ads. This is about 20 minutes left in our history of president ial Campaign Advertising with our guest robert mann and your causing comments. This is from the 1992 ad. [video clip] was born in i little rock, ours arkansas. Ive met president kennedy at and iys Nation Program was just thinking what an incredible country this was the someone like me that had no money or anything would be given the opportunity to meet the resident and thats when i decided i could really do Public Service because i cared so much about people. I worked my way through law school with our time jobs, anything i could find. After i graduated i did not care about making a lot of money. I just went to go home and see if i could make a difference. We worked hard in education and health care. We could change peoples lives for the better bring hope back to the american dream. I dont know much about clinton except promises. He tells people what they want to hear. He was to spend more money. Less food on the table. I dont know how we can take any more taxes. He raised taxes in arkansas. He will raise taxes here. Less money for everything. Who is the best qualified person on the job on the stage to create jobs. I suggest you might consider someone a created jobs. Who is the best person to manage money. Who is the best person get results . Look at the record, make your decision. Finally, who would you give your pension fund and your savings account to to manage, and the last 1 who would you ask to be the trustee of your estate to take care of your children is something happen to you . God bless you, im doing this for you. I want you to have your american dream. And to the American People, i am doing this because i love you. Thats it. Mann lsu, the ross perot spot is the least produced of the ones we will be showing. Guest it is my favorite because it is so unproduced, is just pure ross perot into your living room and i like it. I mean, i really like it. I dont think it was an ineffective ad at all. Captured ross perot, his humanity, his inspoken this, the plainspokenness. Host and the man from a hope. Yes, that was a masterpiece. That was a 62nd distillation of a 15minute film that was produced by Linda Bloodworth thomason, who was a very successful Hollywood Television producer who had several designing women and evening very popular shows at the time. She and her husband were very the clintons. Ith it was shown at the Democratic Convention and it was electrifying and very effective because here is clinton, this graduate of georgetown and yale, who, for a lot of people who did that know much about him at the time thought he was a child of privilege, had grown up and while, and this film is really designed to show he came from the heartland, he came from modest means. He was one of us. The idea that he was born in a town called hope is just perfect. You couldnt write a better name of a the hometown for a political candidate, and in the most electrifying part of that spot here is clinton talking about himself as the bridge between camelot and the new Democratic Party and you literally have bill clinton shaking hands in the rose garden with john f. Kennedy. It was not just a rhetorical connection, a physical connection and i think it was bio really one of the best spots we have seen. And its really a masterpiece. Its just a beautiful piece of advertising. From maryland. Om democrats line. Hello, professor. Thank you for coming on. I was very interested in the bush ad you shown. It should me how bush ran to extend reaganism and how reagan ran as a law and order president. My question is, has this message become less effective as a form of propaganda with the Trump Campaign has you think this form of racism connects with the average of white voter these days as opposed to back in the 1980s and maybe even with nixon . Host ok, tom, thank you. I think bush was effective in doing this because you caucus was so inept in responding to it. There were better ways to respond to it. Candidates an inept in so many ways. The most effective use of that law in order was when theres been a challenger critiquing the governance of the incumbent so, Richard Nixon very effectively challenging portraying the ld under Lyndon Johnson that was very effective. I think its probably less effective for the incumbent to up you elect to my elect my opponent you will not have what you have. That is why it has not been a very effective message for President Trump. Line, westrats virginia. Caller good morning. I was kind of disappointed you skipped the 1976 election with ford and carter. Gerald fords presidency had the then tot they had to face election in tw years, so the Foreign Policy was restricted, had to take a backseat to the domestic policy and i was just wondering what did you have to say about the 1976 campaign . That campaign those ads were interesting. That was a rough campaign. It was interesting knowing how those two candidates became very good friends later in life and jimmy carter delivered the funeral. Gerald fords you would never imagine that would be possible. Jimmy carter is basically running against the corruption of the next and administration, promising, tying Richard Nixon to gerald ford, promising a new start and if we had more time we would want to show the bio spot the jimmy carter ran, anchoring the keen upeorgia, farmer, showing his hometown. They were very effective, but also, i think more so very effective in framing carter as a complete and total break. Years. Barely two a reminder to all of our callers, you can read robert manns books about the topics. We can get to everything, but lets at least get to the 2000s some of thee are ads in the 2000 campaign of george bush and al gore. Here is a look. [video clip] 1969, america in turmoil. Al gore graduates from college. His father opposes the war. When he comes him from vietnam, the last thing he thinks he will ever do is enter politics. He becomes a reporter. In our court decided to change what was wrong in america, he had to fight for what was right. , andn for Congress Hearings on cleaning up toxic waste, broke with his own party to support the gulf war, fought to reform welfare with work requirements and guidance. All ouron to preserve families, not just a few, strengthen social security, hold schools accountable for results, tax cuts for working families in the middle class. Gore, married 30 years, father of four. Under clintongore, Prescription Drug prices have skyrocketed. Mr. Bush every senior love access to Prescription Drug benefit. Al gore pushing a Big Government planned that will let washington bureaucrats interfere with what your doctors provide prescribed. Prescription plan seniors choose. That professor mann, george bush prescription add has a subliminal message. It is called the rat add, tell us why. The word bureaucrats this is about health care, Prescription Drug plans and its not an ad about is not attacking, is positive and negative, but when the word bureaucrats comes up on the screen, for one third of one second is enlarged, you see the last four letters rats. , notviewers somewhere anyone connected with the gore campaign, saw it and alerted someone in the press that this thing had shown rats for third of a second and there was a several days long brouhaha about whether the Bush Campaign implement a subliminal message. There are people you will find you will still have a very spirited argument about, number one, whether those liminal were asked a subliminal messages were, and whether it was intentional or not. And for third of a second it is hard to imagine that anyone would have noticed it. The idea was no one would have noticed it consciously, but unconsciously, you would take democrats were rats. That seems too cute by half, but maybe not. Host more full and calls. Burlington, new jersey. Good morning. Caller good morning. Wrench mean to throw a in to your program but i think theres an elephant in the room and that is this. We have advertising that is done and approved and of paid for by candidates and thats always a tagline on the advertising that is done. But we have the biased journalists who are on the air for hours and hours of the time and nobody tells us who approves them being on the air. Steve scully is an interesting study. I have been a dedicated cspan watchers since back in the 1970s with brian lamb, etc. , etc. The situation with steve scully host i am going to let you go. The company has addressed the issue of steve scully and made plain that steve scullys twitter account was hacked. Yes, he served as an intern in the biden and kennedy offices 40 years ago, like thousands of other College Students in this country, he was an intern back then. I suggest you take a look at the range of steves work in the course of his career. Video look at cspans library will find thousands of instances of the broad range of coverage. His twitter account was hacked. We appreciate you calling in. Thank you for the excellent presentation this morning. I know that traditionally the campaigns started out for labor , but as the trend toward earlier balloting continues, is that legislated, regulated and is there a chance it might move earlier in the year to be more effective . Guest wow. Great question. It has definitely changed the way that the cant the candidates are campaigning. Who knows what the world will look like four years from now, if the trend is toward much more earlier voting, if you are not a fan of these campaigns, you will campaign season. If youre in swing states, you have put up with a year of this. Seeing thesely not if you great number, but are living in a place like florida or ohio or michigan or wisconsin, nevada, arizona, you will be seeing spots like this. Ll year long fitzsimmonsn in army hospital. Both of my parents taught me about Public Service. I enlisted because i believe in service to country. I thought it was important to give Something Back to your country. The decisions he made save your lives. When he pulled me out of the river, he risked his life to save mine. If you look at my fathers service to this country whether it is as a veteran, prosecutor, a senator, he has fought for things that matter. John is someone who is generous of spirit. We are a country of optimists. A lifetime of service and strength. John kerry for president. Raped, have personally cut off ears, cut off heads. The accusations john kerry made against the veterans who served in vietnam the accusations hurt me more than the physical ones i had. Cutting up limbs. That was part of the torture, to sign a statement that you committed war crimes. The enemy forgave free what i and many of my to torture to avoid saying. It demoralized us. He betrayed us in the past. How could we be loyal to him now . Ande dishonored his country more importantly, the people who served with. Veterans for truth is responsible for the content of this advertising. Swift votet act, the add, what was the origin of that . That was one of at least four spots run by this Organization Called swift boat veterans for truth that was a group of had ans, many of whom ill willed and data against john kerrys one when he testified against the vietnam war, before the senate, and kerry begins his spot,gn with this bio its all built around his valor in vietnam, and this thirdparty adsp begins running these attacking and undermining the claims about how he won these metals and that major issue in the campaign. Example of how a thirdparty organization can run balloonsand how it into a Major Campaign issue. It became the centerpiece of the campaign. Down about five points when he ran those ads. Those ads destroyed john kerrys campaign. Host Mass Communications professor at Louisiana State university, thank you for spending time with us this morning. Guest thank you. Host if you missed any of our conversation this morning, it reairs tonight, are program on on president ial tv campaigns. Learn mored like to about past president ial elections starting now on cspan3 is a debate from the 1976 campaign between jimmy carter and gerald ford. Good evening. I am a Pauline Frederick of npr, moderator of the debate of the a 1976 campaign between gerald r. Ford and jimmy carter, democratic candidate for president. Thank you, president ford and thank you governor carter for being with us tonight. This debate takes place in the fine arts theater in san francisco. 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