This Week's 'The List' -- Historic Ads, RNC Humor
Aug. 29, 2004 -- — A weekly feature on This Week.
Voices/Images
The American Museum of the Moving Image in New York has put together an exhibition of 250 of the best, worst and never-seen presidential campaign ads. This Week looks at some of the most memorable.
1952: Adlai Stevenson:
Woman singing: "I do love you madly, and what you did for your own great state. You're gonna do for the rest of the 48."
1956: Adlai Stevenson:
Announcer: "How's that again, general?"
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (retired general): "Yes, it's time for a change."
Sen. Estes Kefauver: This is Estes Kefauver. The general's promise to bring down prices was another broken promise.
1968: Richard M. Nixon:
Announcer: "The McGovern defense plan: He would cut the Marines by one-third, the Air Force by one-third. He would cut interceptor planes by one-half. President Nixon doesn't believe we should play games with our national security. He believes in a strong America, to negotiate for peace from strength."
1988: George H. W. Bush:
[Video of Dukakis riding in tank]
Announcer: "Michael Dukakis has opposed virtually every defense system we've developed, and now he wants to be our commander-in-chief. America can't afford that risk."
1988: Michael Dukakis:
Michael Dukakis: "I'm fed up with it. Never seen anything like it in 25 years of public life, George Bush's negative TV ads, distorting my record. Full of lies, and he knows it."
Funnies
In this week's Sunday "Funnies," the welcome mat is out for the Republicans in New York.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Lewis Black: "Here in New York, we're just days away from the Republican National Convention, and to all those delegates worried about what they'll find when they step off the plane, imagine me times eight million. 'Welcome. You're in my way!'"
Late Show with David Letterman:
Letterman: "You could not have picked a better time to be in New York: We have the protestors. We have the closed streets. We have the gridlock. We have the bomb alerts. We have the heightened security. Where are you going next, Najaf?"
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