John Moran Bailey Quotes
… the sickest political program to be conceived since television became a factor … it appeals to the prurient and prejudiced in a fashion which makes a mockery of its pretension to be speaking for moral conduct.
The documentary was a rabid, racist appeal to the worst kind of prejudices. It was so extreme that even the Republican Candidate, Barry Goldwater, denounced it. The complaint was moot when Citizens for Goldwater-Miller, the film’s producers, withdrew it before it could be aired nationally.
John Moran Bailey, 1904-1975, Chairman, Democratic National Committee, Protest regarding the Republican campaign documentary, Choice, filed with the Fair Campaign Practices Committee, 1964
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Monte and several over Republicans had agreed to serve on his Hispanic Advisory Committee of his Campaign for the Presidency. However, Trump made some very insulting generalizations about Hispanic immigrants for example calling them "rapists". The Committee and most other Republican Leaders had informed Trump that his rhetoric was counter productive and turning off minority voters. Trump had indicated that he would change his approach and soften his policies and his rhetoric against immigrants and minorities, and seemed to do that in a =visit with the President of Mexico. He returned to the United States and held a major rally where Monte's Committee and the Republican National Committee understood that he would pivot and take a new approach. He delivered the speech with the members of the Hispanic Advisory Committee behind him, and then surprised them all and went back to his hard line, insulting positions and rhetoric that had distressed many before. Monto and other members to the Hispanic Advisory committee resigned in protest and were particularly resentful that Trump would use them as in his speech that was televised when Trump must have known that he was going back to his original positions to which they had objected.
She was writing regarding the first use of television in a presidential campaign and the first time the public had ever been exposed to spot political ads. The practice, innovated in the Eisenhower campaign of 1952, was thought of as playing to the lowest element of the electorate’s psyche—selling politicians as if they were breakfast cereal or soap flakes.
CREEP in the Nixon Campaign. He was himself a convicted Watergate conspirator. Mitchell did not approve the plan, but did not fire Liddy either.
John Moran Bailey was an American politician who played a major role in promoting the New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party and its liberal policy positions.
