Next, on lectures in history, Purdue University professor Kathryn Brownell teaches a class about political advertising in the 1950s, highlighting Dwight Eisenhowers president ial campaigns. She compares radio and early televised ads and examines what components made them successful. Her class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Nothing perhaps captures the popular memory of the 1950s like the slogan i like ike. This idea that this pin that so many people wore around the campaign of 1952 and 1956 conveys a notion of nostalgia and simplicity. It really emphasizes this idea of the 1950s as this era of prosperity where america was a world leader and the American People were happy in suburban homes with their nuclear families. I like ike. Its so simple. And it conveys that happiness. This idea, however, is a myth. And its a political construction. The 1950s in fact was a time wrought with racial discrimination, conflict, intense political and social pressures to conform to a suburban ideal tha
Cspan three. Brought to you today by your television provider. Many americans thought they were voting to bring our sons home from vietnam in peace and since then 20,000 of our sons have come home in coffins. I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan and as one whose heart has ached for the past temperature years over the agony of vietnam, i will halt the senseless bombing of china on inaugural day. It was 2 30 in the morning when George Mcgovern delivered his acceptance speech. He would lose badly to president Richard Nixon. Were live from the museum in mitche mitchell south dakota. Why is it 2 30 in the morning . The reason i think it was embl emblemmatic. And what happened was that as you heard the senator there, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me is one of the most flufl of those that ran for the presidency but was not successful. I think he did two things. One he spoke about that war in ways that no president ial candi
History. First, the democrats name the kennedyjohnson ticket and now in chicago, the republicans, who elected Abraham Lincoln just 100 years ago, pin their hopes on nixon and lodge. President eisenhower poses with his Vice President in chicago. The illinois metropolis had given the chief executive one of the most heartwarming receptions of his career upon his arrival to address the gop convention. [applause] thank you, ike day is the theme for the thunderous welcome. The enthusiasm spills over to the convention hall, where ike and maim the old center stage, while Convention Business waits in the wings. [applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administrations twoterms of stewardship. Remarks concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism, or free system. He hurls a challenge at soviet premier nikita khrushchev. I challenge him to this. Will he agreed to the holding of free elections under the sponsorship of the United Nations,
The big nominating conventions go to political history. First, the democrats name the kennedyjohnson ticket and now in chicago, the republicans, who lincoln just 100 years ago, pin their hopes on nixon and lodge. Poses withisenhower his Vice President in chicago. The illinois metropolis had given the chief executive one of the most heartwarming receptions of his career upon his arrival to address the gop convention. [applause] thank you, ike day is the theme for the thunderous welcome. The enthusiasm spills over to the convention hall, where ike and maim the old center stage, while Convention Business waits in the wings. [applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administrations twoterms of stewardship. Remarks concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism, or free system. He hurls a challenge at soviet premier nikita khrushchev. This. Hallenge him to with he agreed to the holding of free elections under the sponsorship of the
Basis. Keep you abreast of that. Barreling down, albeit barreling down slowly on Grady Trimble in gulf part mississippi. Reporter neil, sally is moving extremely slowly at two miles an hour. That is slower than most humans walk. You can see here it is starting to rain. The wind is picking up. Were in pascagoula, mississippi. The water is lapping over the side. The storm makes landfall tomorrow, is that tomorrowsurge continues. That the water pushed up. In area. Along beach boulevard there are many house us. Theyre not boarded up for the most part from what weve seen. Sternly a risk of flooding, with all of the oak trees, 85 mileperhour winds are nothing to mess around with either. Because the storm is moving so slowly well see several days worth of rain. You could see flash flooding on top of a potential for storm surge. I want to point out the pier in the background there. A light moment as people prepare for this very serious storm. We saw people gathered there we werent sure what th