Come on, Prince.
I have, boy.
You little mutt.
Come on.
I've been driving a taxi here in Washington for quite a few years.
Every day I pass this corner a dozen times and never even notice it.
But every night when Prince takes me out for my evening walk, I always stop
when I reach this particular spot.
Look over there at that house, where you see the lighted windows.
A neighbor of mine lives there.
Yep, Dwight D. Eisenhower, a man with the most important job in the world today.
What do you suppose he's thinking about over there?
Right now, at this very minute.
Maybe things thousands of miles away from here, anywhere in the world, wherever
some crisis is starting to threaten everybody's future.
Egypt, Formosa, East Berlin, there's a dozen places where
real trouble can break out.
And that's why we all depend on Ike so much.
He can stand up to Khrushchev and those fellas.
He's a big man who's used to handling big problems.
Or maybe he's thinking about the folks who work every day in factories and
offices or drive taxis.
Of course, mine isn't one of the big jobs in the world, but it's important to me.
And I get a feeling it's important to him.
I think he knows all about people like me who work for a living.
After all, he was born in a small town.
His family was no rich in mind.
He never had any money given to him, and everything he's got he had to work for.
He's a family man, too.
He knows the problems of raising a family and trying to
give them the things they need.
Yeah, he might be thinking about a lot of things, children maybe, and how we can
help them all have their own desk in a good school with a good teacher to help
them grow up strong and healthy.
With all the advantages and opportunities our kids ought to have, or the people
on the farms, how to save their land and help them grow crops and have some
cash in their pockets at the end of every year.
Real hard questions that need his impartial thinking if they're
going to be solved fairly.
So the farmer is sure of getting a steady increasing income himself.
Or how we can stay strong.
Boy, I see it.
There's a problem that absolutely calls for a man with Ike's background as a
military lead-in statesman.
He knows what it takes to give us the strength we must have to stay free.
Yes, behind those lighted windows is a kind of man history only favors a nation
with once in a long, long time.
A man dedicated as few men ever are to high principles and human good.
A man whose whole life has been given to his country's service.
That's why tonight, while I'm thinking of him, I got a feeling he's
thinking of me and my future and my family's future.
In times like these, so full of perils and problems, I'll be honest with you.
I need him.
Don't you?
Come on, Prince. Come on, boy.
Time we [...]
The national citizens for Eisenhower and Nixon have presented this dramatization
for all thinking voters regardless of party affiliation.
Lower taxes.
Higher taxes.
Record employment.
Unemployment.
Peace.
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Highest wages.
Lower pay.
Late rights.
Centralization of government.
Whoa, stop!
I've tried.
I've listened to everybody on TV and radio.
I've read the papers and magazines.
I've tried, but I'm still confused.
Who's right?
What's right?
What should I believe?
What are the facts?
How can I tell?
Well, my friend, if it's any consolation, you're not alone.
Many voters are in the same boat right this minute.
Words have been flying at you hot and heavy.
You've heard the pros and cons, the cons and pros of both sides.
You've listened to people you believe in and people you've never heard of.
It's not surprising that you're confused.
But beyond all the words, beyond all the claims and promises, there's actually
just one big thing on which most people base their final decision.
The man.
Take this man, Dwight David Eisenhower.
Ike.
Soldier.
Statesman.
President.
American.
Dwight David Eisenhower is a man looked up to by everyone.
He's captured the admiration, the trust, the devotion of
Americans in all walks of life.
He's won the acclaim of people of other nations, and made
us prouder to be Americans.
And he believes in the basic traditions of American life, home and family, and
faith in God, faith in man, faith in equal justice and opportunity for
all, faith in the future.
How do Americans think of Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Listen.
President Eisenhower has brought integrity and honesty back to the White House.
I'm for Eisenhower because I believe he's the only man in the world of A that can
talk to the leaders of all of the countries in their language on a
plane that they'll understand.
I'm a dairy farmer near Des Moines, Iowa.
I'm going to vote for President Eisenhower because I hope to be farming
for a number of years myself.
The President's Program for Agriculture stands for the future and
not just for day-to-day handouts.
I want to see President Eisenhower reelected.
He's brought honesty and integrity to the White
House, peace and prosperity to our country.
That's good enough for me.
I think he feels that the individual American is self-reliant and wants to stand
on his own feet, work out his own destiny with his hands and his mind, as he best
sees fit with as little interference from government as he can have.
Eisenhower strikes me as a fundamentally peaceful man, and I think that he knows
enough about war that he would do practically anything
honorable to keep us out of it.
I like the President because his personal integrity, I think that the nearest
thing to a statement that he's had in the White House for many years, he
does have integrity and he has brought confidence to this
nation and to the world.
He practices so many things that he believes from his heart.
With that kind of leadership, with the feeling and the aura and the attitude of,
I'm doing the best I can that comes from him every time you just look at him.
I just can't see anything wrong with the man. Maybe I'm a little pregnant.
Those were the voices of the people speaking
about the man they're going to vote for.
Who will you vote for?
What's your decision?
What do you say?
Me? I like Ike!
The National Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon have presented this message to all
thinking voters, regardless of party affiliation.
This year there are 54 million women eligible to vote, two and a half million
more women than men, enough to decide the whole election.
And as November 6 draws near, you women are doing a lot of thinking about a
lot of important things.
For instance, you're thinking about the cost of living.
You want to see living expenses stay at a reasonable level.
You want your family budget to be protected against inflation.
You're thinking about your family.
You want to be as sure as you can that you will all go on living together in our
present happiness and prosperity, in an America at peace.
You're thinking about your children's future.
You want them to grow up under the best possible conditions in terms of schools,
health and general welfare.
And because they believe he represents their best hope of achieving these things,
the women of America are making their choice for president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
But suppose we ask some of them what they think about the coming election.
My main reason for voting for Eisenhower is because I believe in his sincerity.
I don't feel that he is furthering his own interests, but he is furthering
interests of the country and the people.
I feel he's a very big man, which is needed for that position, and also because
he has not been and is not what I consider a politician.
I'm interested in Ike, and this is my one big reason why I'm interested in Ike.
As a woman and future homemaker and mother in America, the type of man that I
want to be president is a man that I and my family and my children in those that
I'm in can look up to and respect.
I think that President Eisenhower is that sort of man.
Inflation. We're not going to have that in the next four years if we
vote right with Ike.
I'm voting for Ike because I feel that he is a God-fearing man, and I think
that's essential in any leader, especially the leader of our country.
I think that Eisenhower has shown how he feels about the average working man.
He's given us the minimum wage law, the changes he's made in Social Security, and
I think in another four years he'll do even more than that for us.
I'm going to vote for President Eisenhower because he represents the things
in which I believe.
I like his philosophy of the dignity of man, and I also believe that he is a
sincere, honest, and high-caliber person.
He has a smile that can prove only one thing, and that is honesty.
So much of our future rests with the women of our country.
They are the homemakers. The whole family unit revolves around them.
Everything that affects the family's welfare affects them first, and everything
in the family's life benefits from their influence.
They do the family buying. They see that everybody in the family circle is
well clothed and well fed.
But beyond this, they are the custodian of its values
and aspirations for the future.
In their hands lies the training of our young people, to whom they pass on the
rich heritage of our nation, its love of peace and justice,
and its passion for freedom.
The women of our country swept Dwight D. Eisenhower into office four years ago.
They will probably decide the election this time, and they like Ike.
And here's somebody else they like, too.
Ike's beloved Mamie, whose smile and modesty and easy natural charm make
her the ideal First Lady.
Let's keep our First Lady in the White House for four more years.
The National Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon have presented this message to all
thinking voters, regardless of party affiliation.
It's cooked all the time, and every Saturday afternoon in stadiums all over the
country, you'll see young men, like this one, watching
the games and enjoying themselves.
But four years ago, it was a different story.
Four years ago, many of our young men were on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea, and that
was no game, but vicious, grinding war that went on and on as if forever.
Of course, today it's all over, and the young men are trying to forget.
But for one day this year, they'll remember.
And that one day is Election Day, November 6th, when not only these young men,
but Americans of all ages, will be thinking long and hard about how to vote for
the surest road to peace during the next four years.
What are some of their thoughts?
I am engaged this time, and I'm planning to get married, and I don't want to look
forward to military service in war.
I want my children to grow up in a country that's in peace. I think that
Ike is a man that can do this for us.
I will vote for President Eisenhower because I am the mother of three children,
and I feel with President Eisenhower, in command of our country, I can raise
my children with great security.
I'm going to vote for Ike because of his outstanding record in the past four
years, and because I believe through the Republican administration we will have
peace and prosperity for my children to grow up for at least the next 20 years.
I served four and a half years in the United States Army Air Forces, and am a
great admirer of President Eisenhower in what he did during the war in leading us
to victory, and what he is now doing to lead us to peace and to hold
the peace of this world.
I have an 18-year-old son, and I am so grateful to Eisenhower for giving
him an uninterrupted education.
So many of the boys and his friends were sent to Korea in a war that
had no successful conclusion.
All over the country, young men and their parents are asking, can we gamble
when the stakes are so high?
Can we dismiss the man who has kept us at peace and take a chance on a man
untried and inexperienced in international negotiations and world problems?
Now what do you say? Are you willing to bet everything you love and hold dear
that Stevenson can also keep us out of war?
Are you that sure of it? Remember, this peace we've grown so
used to didn't come to us as a gift.
Four years ago, you did something about it. You registered, and you
voted Ike Eisenhower into office.
Now let's keep him there. Ask yourself, is this the time to change with
wars simmering all around the world?
During the past four years, President Eisenhower has kept this black headline off
the front pages of our newspapers, because he knows at first hand the terror and
misery of war, as he has said.
We witness today in the power of nuclear weapons a new and deadly dimension
to the ancient horror of war.
Humanity is now achieved for the first time in its history, the power
to end its history.
This truth must guide our everyday. It makes world disarmament
a necessity of world life.
For I repeat again this simple declaration. The only way to win World War III
is to prevent it.
The National Citizens for Eisenhower Nixon have presented this message to all
thinking voters, regardless of party affiliation.