Mother and Child Ad (LBJ 1964 Presidential campaign commercial) VTR 4568-3

Serial #: VTR 4568, No. 3
Date: 1964
Event: 1964 Presidential Campaign
Location: Unknown
Credit: Democratic National Committee
Rights Info: No usage fees. User must observe DNC guidelines. Contact LBJ Presidential Library for more information.
Description: Television advertisement. Expectant mother and her child, holding a balloon, walk through a park. The narration discusses the Nuclear Test--Ban Treaty and LBJ's promise to uphold the treaty if he is elected in the 1964 presidential election.
Subjects: Nuclear Test--Ban Treaty, 1964 presidential election, Barry Goldwater

[@shirtless6934]

What is sobering to realize is that the woman's unborn child, if still alive, is in his or her 50's now.

[@muzikdude1188]

And that the pregnant woman is probably pushing 80 by now.

[@madisonholland1753]

That’s my grandma Barbara Lord (Warburton), and she was pregnant with my uncle Patrick. :) She doesn’t act anymore, but she’s still just as beautiful.

[@Paelorian]

The men of the family are absent. They must be overseas fighting in LBJ's war in Vietnam. So much for protecting the safety of American families. The stakes were high, indeed. Just not the way Johnson's campaign depicted them.

[@shirtless6934]

Goldwater advocated the use of "low yield" atomic weapons in Vietnam. He would not have ended the war; he would have escalated it, and he might have drawn Red China and the Soviet Union into the conflict. Goldwater was a wild-eyed kook who drove the Republican party over the cliff and made it possible for the religious wingnuts to take over.

[@shirtless6934]

The men of the family are absent? Then how do you suppose she got pregnant?

[@nmflash]

@@shirtless6934 Since no one has admitted to using low yield nukes we will never know how that would go or how AuH2O would have actually handled the war or performed as President. Now are you really gonna sit on your soapbox and disallow that the USSR and PRC were heavily involved for the duration? Johnson didn't know his ass from page eight once he started carpet bombing and/or fire McNamara.