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@TucsonSentinel I wonder what #BarryGoldwater would think of the #RWNJ organization that now carries his name?
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#JackieRobinson skewered the Republican establishment for nominating #BarryGoldwater in 1964, saying the Party was in danger of “being taken over by the lily-white-ist conservatives.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/goldwater-jackie-robinson/474498/
h/t @fmhilton
The Atlantic · How Jackie Robinson Helped Defeat a Trump-Like Candidate
During the ‘64 campaign, Republican party officials in #California asked #Reagan to film a speech on behalf of #BarryGoldwater.
The speech aired on October 27, 1964 and it was electrifying.
Donations to the Republican party and candidates increased dramatically.
The Republican Party took note and they targeted Reagan as a candidate from that point forward.
He agreed in 1966 to run for Governor of California.
He won two terms, and eventually won the Presidency.
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/time-choosing-speech-october-27-1964
Ronald ReaganA Time for Choosing Speech, October 27, 1964Timechoosing
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge March 21: Countdown on #NationalCountdownDay
[SPOILER WARNING BELOW]
#Peace, little girl aka Daisy aka Daisy Girl was the #PoliticalAd campaign to end all ad campaigns. It opens innocently enough with a little blonde girl, picking the petals of an ox-eye #daisy while counting. When the final petal's gone, the tone changes completely*
This deceptively simple #propaganda #film was made in support of Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign by ad agency #DBB and media consultant #TonySchwartz. It was so effective and bleak in is insinuations that the Johnson campaign was forced to pull it after only one screening.
What fascinates me is the similarity with one particular scene from James Whale's Frankenstein (1931). The Monster (#Karloff) meets a little girl who sits on the shore of a lake, picking daisies. He approaches her, and the girl, knowing the creature is a good man at heart, invites him to play a game with her involving them tossing the daisies into the lake. <spoiler>When they run out of daisies, the Monster picks up the girl who to him is as pretty and innocent as a flower, and throws her into the water.</spoiler>.
This scene was cut and considered lost until the 1980s. Could Tony Schwartz have been aware of that scene? He was at the right age to have seen the pre-code, pre-cut version.
*Peace, little girl is deceptively simple and only a minute long. However, do watch it on a sunny day: https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs01185386.
#film #cinema #propaganda #elections #LyndonBJohnson #BarryGoldwater #ColdWar #Vietnam #VietnamWar #politics #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/
