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"Ike for President", sometimes referred to as "We'll Take Ike" or "I Like Ike", was a political television advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign in 1952. The minute-long animated advertisement was conceived by Jacqueline Cochran , a pilot and Eisenhower campaign aide, and Roy O. Disney of The Walt Disney Company , and ...
On March 18, more than 106,000 people voted for "Eisenhower", "Isenhowr", or "Ike" as a write-in candidate in the Minnesota presidential primary, only 20,000 votes behind Stassen. [76] The editor of The Kansas City Star, Roy A. Roberts, called it "one of the biggest things that ever happened in an American political campaign". [77]
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A notable ad for Eisenhower was an issue-free feel-good animated cartoon with a soundtrack song by Irving Berlin called "I Like Ike". For the first time, a presidential candidate's personal medical history was released publicly, as were partial versions of his financial histories, because of the issues that had been raised in Nixon's speech. [ 33 ]
People stood alongside the curb of N. Spruce Street across from the Little Ike Park parking lot waiting in anticipation for the unveiling of the World’s Largest I Like Ike Button. Unveiled June ...
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Ike's television address was (I think) limited to that Ike answers America campaign, where he was asked 10 seconds long question, he recorded 10 seconds long reply, and that short ad was ready! Stevenson campaign mostly used their advertising funds for broadcasting long speeches, seen as a way of bringing the traditional Truman styled whistle ...
May 14—Abilene is adding to its "World's Largest" collection by adding a button. The Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau is organizing the creation of the World's Largest I Like Ike Button.