Harry S. Truman at a Surprise Poker Party Photo: Surprise poker party at the home of A. J. & Mildred Granoff, on the occasion of A. J. Granoff’s 60th birthday. Seated at the poker table in the lower left hand corner are: Frank Rope, A. D. “Doc” Jacobson, former President Harry S. Truman, Hy Vile (standing), A. J. Granoff, and Harry Small. 2/22/56. -from the Truman Library
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Harry S. Truman at a Surprise Poker Party

Photo: Surprise poker party at the home of A. J. & Mildred Granoff, on the occasion of A. J. Granoff’s 60th birthday. Seated at the poker table in the lower left hand corner are: Frank Rope, A. D. “Doc” Jacobson, former President Harry S. Truman, Hy Vile (standing), A. J. Granoff, and Harry Small. 2/22/56.

-from the Truman Library

Source: trumanlibrary.org

The Development of TV Spots

Television became an important part of campaign fundraising for the 1952 presidential election.

These storyboards are from an Eisenhower campaign strategy book that illustrates how money-raising goals were achieved through “TV Spots.”

“Spots for Eisenhower” -the entire book at The Presidential Timeline

Source: presidentialtimeline.org

Thirty four more days until the Presidential election. In the coming weeks, the Presidential Libraries will be featuring memorabilia, photos, and documents from campaigns of the past century.  Up first, a campaign comic book created for the 1952 election.  A Republican senatorial campaign in Rhode Island promoted the GOP slate by making the most of Dwight Eisenhower’s heroic image as “Leader, Statesman, Administrator, Presidential Candidate.” Happy October!
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Thirty four more days until the Presidential election. In the coming weeks, the Presidential Libraries will be featuring memorabilia, photos, and documents from campaigns of the past century. 

Up first, a campaign comic book created for the 1952 election.  A Republican senatorial campaign in Rhode Island promoted the GOP slate by making the most of Dwight Eisenhower’s heroic image as “Leader, Statesman, Administrator, Presidential Candidate.”

Happy October!

Source: presidentialtimeline.org

life: March 28, 1969: President Eisenhower dies in Washington D.C., at the age of 78. Pictured above, Eisenhower graces the cover of the April 17, 1950 issue of LIFE Magazine.
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March 28, 1969: President Eisenhower dies in Washington D.C., at the age of 78.

Pictured above, Eisenhower graces the cover of the April 17, 1950 issue of LIFE Magazine.

Fun Leap Year Fact: What was Dwight D. Eisenhower doing on Leap Day 1956?  He announced his reelection campaign.  Yes, we still like Ike.  -from the Eisenhower Library
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Fun Leap Year Fact: What was Dwight D. Eisenhower doing on Leap Day 1956?  He announced his reelection campaign.  Yes, we still like Ike. 

-from the Eisenhower Library

Betty’s family in the Fifties Betty Ford holding infant Jack in her arms while Michael plays at a small table in their apartment.  1952.
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Betty’s family in the Fifties

Betty Ford holding infant Jack in her arms while Michael plays at a small table in their apartment.  1952.

Source: presidentialtimeline.org

Supreme Court Order for Appearance of Thurgood Marshall, who argued the case for school desegregation.  From the case file of Brown v. Board of Education.  December 3, 1951. Marshall would later become the first African American Supreme Court Justice. More - Thurgood Marshall
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Supreme Court Order for Appearance of Thurgood Marshall, who argued the case for school desegregation.  From the case file of Brown v. Board of Education.  December 3, 1951.

Marshall would later become the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

More - Thurgood Marshall

Source: research.archives.gov

todaysdocument: On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42 year-old woman took a seat near the front of the bus (illustrated in this diagram) on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress. Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social revolution when the bus driver instructed her to move, and she refused. The bus driver called the police and they arrested Rosa Parks, an African American woman of unchallenged character. The African-American community of Montgomery organized a boycott of the buses in protest of the discriminating treatment they had endured for years. The boycott, under the leadership of 26-year-old minister Martin Luther King, Jr., was a peaceful, coordinated protest that lasted 381 days and captured world attention.
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On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42 year-old woman took a seat near the front of the bus (illustrated in this diagram) on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress. Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social revolution when the bus driver instructed her to move, and she refused. The bus driver called the police and they arrested Rosa Parks, an African American woman of unchallenged character.

The African-American community of Montgomery organized a boycott of the buses in protest of the discriminating treatment they had endured for years. The boycott, under the leadership of 26-year-old minister Martin Luther King, Jr., was a peaceful, coordinated protest that lasted 381 days and captured world attention.