Speeches, interviews, newscasts, debates, radio talks, messages to the nation, national party conventions. Dwight Eisenhower, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon. Rep. Caldwell Butler, Ezra Taft Benson, Spiro Agnew. Range from comic to maudlin, vicious to eulogistic. Drawn from local, congressional, state, and presidential campaigns across the country from the 1950s to the early 1980s.
Themes range from nostalgia for old Britain to imprecations against bureaucrats and minorities.
This set complements the library's older Winslow collection of political memorabilia.