On Sept. 7, 1964, as millions of Americans watched NBC’s “Monday Night at the Movies,” an ad appeared featuring a 3-year-old girl in a sunny meadow plucking petals from a daisy and counting, sometimes ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign ran a terrifying 60-second advertisement. It ...

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