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CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Clip of DWIGHT EISENHOWER, with Mamie Eisenhower, on a sofa getting ready to give a speech to TV Cameras.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
C/S Brownell, says that Eisenhower had no idea how to give a televised Campaign speech.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Clip of Ike giving the campaign speech, set up to mimic Ike's living room on a night when he and Mamie are having DICK and PAT NIXON over for a drink. The speech is awkward, Ike keeps moving in and out of frame, and at one point, stands up so that the camera has to follow him and cuts off Nixon except for the top of his head.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Shot of Ted Rogers, Eisenhower's 1952 "Media Consultant
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Clip of Ike giving the campaign speech at convention
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Shot of Ted Rogers, Eisenhower's 1952 "Media Consultant", discussing EISENHOWER'S problems with following the rules of moving and speaking on TV, the development of special gadgets to guide Ike through a televised speech.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
EISENHOWER CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL-it is clearly a forerunner of the "man in the street asks the candidate questions" style, but almost embarrassingly schlocky and without any of the technical development to make pretenses to authenticity.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Clip of NIXON'S "CHECKERS SPEECH" in the wake of allegations that NIXON misused campaign funds.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
C/S Ted Rogers, says that he felt a TV address would be the most forceful way for NIXON to try to clear his name.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
Clip of NIXON'S "CHECKERS SPEECH" The conclusion of the speech "We're keeping the dog" and the pledge to drive out "the Crooks and Communists".
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
C/S of Rogers, discuss the aftermath of the "Checkers Speech"
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1952 Presidential Campaign.
C/S of White, discuss the aftermath of the "Checkers Speech", White says that TV saved Nixon on the 1952 ticket.
Washington Week Show - # 4319
Washington Week Show # 4319 - Difficult Days, Wooing Dixie, Divided States of America?, Campaign Cash Counterplay. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Doyle McManus, Karen Tumulty, David Broder, Jeanne Cummings. 20.00.11 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : Military helicopter landing next to another helicopter, President Bush walking and talking with Condoleezza Rice, voters, John Edwards shaking hands with supporters, Joe Lieberman receiving t-shirt from supporter, Howard Dean talking at debate, John Edwards says to Howard Dean "the last thing we need in the South is someone like you coming down and telling us what we need to do." Pedestrians walking down street, demonstrators against the war in Iraq, doctor treating young african american boy, employee punching time-card, President George W. Bush waving at event, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark shaking hands with supporters , John Kerry shaking hands with supporters. 20.01.25 DO NOT USE Commercials 20.02.19 President George W. Bush says "Iraqi democracy will succeed, and that success will send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran, that freedom can be the future of every nation." 20.02.39 Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says "We should decide our President on based on who Americans think is good for the American people. But, I have to tell you that it sends a very unsettling message to Iraqi's that our elections might decide their future." 20.08.44 Howard Dean says "White folks in the south who drive pick-up trucks with confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them." Various clips of Howard Dean.
Washington Week Show - # 4320
Host Gwen Ifill. Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : Aftermath of attack in Iraq, US helicopter in flight, american troops in Iraq, President George W. Bush says "The enemy has changed the tactics on the ground, and so we're changing our response." US military official at press conference, Paul Bremer, Howard Dean at campaign fundraiser, Dick Gephardt, John Kerry says "I've been in a lot of tough fights before, and I've fought back and I've won." John Kerry speaking to reporters, John Kerry speaking to supporters (banner behind him 'Veterans For Kerry'), Senators walking down hallway, African American man pushing two roll-away beds down hall, White House, Capitol Dome, Supreme Court.
Washington Week Show - # 4321
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CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Ted Rogers talks about U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon hurting his already infected knee by getting out of his car and banging it on the door before the televised debate.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Pre-debate, U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) walks across the stage, eventually meets and greets U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon on stage; adult Caucasian males around Kennedy and Nixon, setting-up the debate, or taking photographs.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Ted Rogers talks about the importance of lighting and make-up when it comes to television appearances, and that he requested both of those things for U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon prior to the debate, and his advisors turned down both requests.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Don Hewitt says he asked U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon if he wanted make-up, which Nixon refused. He didn't want it known that he had make-up, but U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy did not, though Nixon needed it. Hewitt goes on to say that Nixon had some make-up applied to him that hid his stubble, but it did not look good. Hewitt called on Frank Stanton, then President of CBS, and made him aware of the issue. Stanton then went and asked if Ted Rogers was okay with the way Nixon looked, and he was.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) speaking casually with one another on stage; adult Caucasian men in FG, one holding camera.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Ted Rogers talking about U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon at the debate; seeing Nixon at his worst, by appearance.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Both U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon and U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) on stage together; adult Caucasian men in FG. Close-up of Kennedy.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Bill Wilson, former media advisor to U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA), says that their strategy was to stay out of the set until fifteen seconds to air time so that he could look fresher coming up on set while U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon had already been standing on set in the studio for a few minutes.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Master 11515 Tape 1 CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - Documentary on the history of Presidental Campaingns and the part that the media plays in American politics. - 1960 Presidential Campaign