Originally Posted by
Draconius
Well he did have a stroke, so that caused half of his face to be paralyzed I think.
Yeah. But he made a speech the other day where at the end he made a comment and tried to give a coy gesture, and I thought it failed. I watched a special on him on CNN last weekend, and I like the guy. I just wish he wasn't so fragile.
Originally Posted by
Anthony
That was only because his competitor looked horrible on TV. It was the first time the US got to see live images of how a candidate handled himself on the big stage. I think it was Nixon who he was against and he looked horrible on television.
It does seem like they're making it up putting an attractive woman there.
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The Civil Rights movement got a lot of help with television. Images of high school kids in the South being pummeled with fire hoses, didn't sit very well in the eyes of the rest of the country.