Nixon Commeral Analysis
Assignment Presidential Elections
Allison Buchholz
Date: November 28, 2012
1972 Nixon vs. McGovern
My thoughts for President Nixon’s commerical’s were all for him. I thought that he was the right choice to be President at the time. There were two commericals that really got my attention, McGovern’s Welfare and Youth commericals. These two commericals got my attention because this is how I feel today and I am sure the citizens feel this way right now too. What President Nixon did in 1971, signing the 26th Amendment, really helped younng adults start being young adults. When the commerical talked about Welfare, it really made me think about people that have a job have to pay for people that cannot work or doesn’t want to work. Back then …show more content…
it was a big deal to stop Welfare but that failed. Today we will have Welfare and we are still paying for people that don’t want to work.
My thoughts on McGovern’s commericals were not so great.
3 out of 10 commericals were with the same people. Not that is bad, but he couldv’e done each commerical with different people to get what everyone else thinks about President Nixon’s actions last term. I feel I would’ve choosen President Nixon over McGovern. McGovern’s commericals were sorta convicing but not enough for me to vote for him. There was one commerical that I did not understand and no matter how many times I saw it, I couldn’t grasp the meaning behind that commerical. The commerical name was Newspapers and the narrator just said, this is about... and that just got annoying because he just said that and a news article. So I think that this commerical could’ve been better made then just saying …show more content…
that.
Yes I think that both of the candidates did fight fair.
Each of them had two or three commericals geared toward each other. I would’ve voted for President Nixon, the reason why is because I think he was better for this country then McGovern. Nixon accomplished way more than most during his adminstration. Mostly because he got 8 years in office but that made sure that the things he wanted the USA to happened, happened. Some of his accomplishments included, ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), ending segregation, revenue sharing, new anti crime laws, started to end the Cold War, recognized and fought against foreign oil price gouging, and implemented a broad environmental program (he is largely responsible for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
He was the only President to achieve a balanced national budget between 1961 and 1998. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and
Syria.
Nixon knew that he needed to have aggressive ads, so he rediculed McGovern’s proposed defense cuts by using toy soldiers, planes, and warships. Another ad said that McGovern would put 47% of the country on welfare. Although he was a republican, these two ads where credited to “Democrats for Nixon,” this strategy was meant to create a new impression that McGovern’s liberal views put him outside his own party. President Nixon made the 26th amendment allowing 18 year olds to vote which means 11 million new voters in 1971. He made drugs number one priority to get rid of. He wanted to make sure that his citizens were safe from drug addicts. He said change is hard but without change there can be no progress. He was also the first american President to go to Russia and make peace.
McGovern says that we need a President that will change his mind. He wants to get everyone a job and doesn’t think that the people who cant work shouldn’t get money. He says stop the crime and not give smart answers, the people want to see the progress and Nixon didn’t show any. He wants all of the vets to get more education, going to college. Nixon talked about Tanya a russian child, McGovern says that very since Mr. Nixon became president, 165,000 South Vietnamese civilians-men, woman, and children- our allies –people we are fighting to save- have been kiled by American bombs. A quarter of the wounded civilians in South Vietnam were children under 12.
President Nixon got re-elected in 1972. The results were 47,740,323 (60.7%) of the votes went to re-elect President Nixon. George McGrovern got 28,901,598 (37.5%) of the votes. President Nixon got 49 of the states while McGovern got 1 state. Nixon got 520 electoral vote while McGovern got 17 electoral votes.
Allison Buchholz
Date: November 28, 2012
1972 Nixon vs. McGovern
My thoughts for President Nixon’s commerical’s were all for him. I thought that he was the right choice to be President at the time. There were two commericals that really got my attention, McGovern’s Welfare and Youth commericals. These two commericals got my attention because this is how I feel today and I am sure the citizens feel this way right now too. What President Nixon did in 1971, signing the 26th Amendment, really helped younng adults start being young adults. When the commerical talked about Welfare, it really made me think about people that have a job have to pay for people that cannot work or doesn’t want to work. Back then …show more content…
it was a big deal to stop Welfare but that failed. Today we will have Welfare and we are still paying for people that don’t want to work.
My thoughts on McGovern’s commericals were not so great.
3 out of 10 commericals were with the same people. Not that is bad, but he couldv’e done each commerical with different people to get what everyone else thinks about President Nixon’s actions last term. I feel I would’ve choosen President Nixon over McGovern. McGovern’s commericals were sorta convicing but not enough for me to vote for him. There was one commerical that I did not understand and no matter how many times I saw it, I couldn’t grasp the meaning behind that commerical. The commerical name was Newspapers and the narrator just said, this is about... and that just got annoying because he just said that and a news article. So I think that this commerical could’ve been better made then just saying …show more content…
that.
Yes I think that both of the candidates did fight fair.
Each of them had two or three commericals geared toward each other. I would’ve voted for President Nixon, the reason why is because I think he was better for this country then McGovern. Nixon accomplished way more than most during his adminstration. Mostly because he got 8 years in office but that made sure that the things he wanted the USA to happened, happened. Some of his accomplishments included, ERA (Equal Rights Amendment), ending segregation, revenue sharing, new anti crime laws, started to end the Cold War, recognized and fought against foreign oil price gouging, and implemented a broad environmental program (he is largely responsible for the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
He was the only President to achieve a balanced national budget between 1961 and 1998. Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability. During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R. His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Vietnam to end American involvement in Indochina. In 1974, his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, negotiated disengagement agreements between Israel and its opponents, Egypt and
Syria.
Nixon knew that he needed to have aggressive ads, so he rediculed McGovern’s proposed defense cuts by using toy soldiers, planes, and warships. Another ad said that McGovern would put 47% of the country on welfare. Although he was a republican, these two ads where credited to “Democrats for Nixon,” this strategy was meant to create a new impression that McGovern’s liberal views put him outside his own party. President Nixon made the 26th amendment allowing 18 year olds to vote which means 11 million new voters in 1971. He made drugs number one priority to get rid of. He wanted to make sure that his citizens were safe from drug addicts. He said change is hard but without change there can be no progress. He was also the first american President to go to Russia and make peace.
McGovern says that we need a President that will change his mind. He wants to get everyone a job and doesn’t think that the people who cant work shouldn’t get money. He says stop the crime and not give smart answers, the people want to see the progress and Nixon didn’t show any. He wants all of the vets to get more education, going to college. Nixon talked about Tanya a russian child, McGovern says that very since Mr. Nixon became president, 165,000 South Vietnamese civilians-men, woman, and children- our allies –people we are fighting to save- have been kiled by American bombs. A quarter of the wounded civilians in South Vietnam were children under 12.
President Nixon got re-elected in 1972. The results were 47,740,323 (60.7%) of the votes went to re-elect President Nixon. George McGrovern got 28,901,598 (37.5%) of the votes. President Nixon got 49 of the states while McGovern got 1 state. Nixon got 520 electoral vote while McGovern got 17 electoral votes.