Daisy Petals and Mushroom Clouds: LBJ, Barry Goldwater, and the Ad That Changed American Politics

The grainy black and white television ad shows a young girl in a flower-filled meadow, holding a daisy and plucking its petals, which she counts one by one. As the camera slowly zooms in on her eye, a man s solemn countdown replaces hers. In the little girl's eye, we see an atomic mushroom cloud and then we hear President Lyndon Baines Johnson's voice as it intones, ''These are the st More »