Civil Rights - Nixon, Richard Milhouse, [Republican], 1960

Item — BurtonHall Cold Storage: 1, PCC - Film Reel - 16mm: 253

Identifier: P-8-133

Staff Only

Scope and Contents Nixon setting on desk, talking about civil rights, equal rights for all citizens, more progress, speed up progress for a better America for all Americans or Creating Entity: Other

Dates

1960

Conditions Governing Use

While the University owns the materials in its collection, it does not own copyright to any of the materials. It is the responsibility of the user to acquire any necessary copyright authorizations for use of the materials such as may be required.

Extent

From the Series: 14,137 Items (14,137 items (This series includes United States Office of President Campaign Ads from 1912-2016): Each item within this collection falls under the following categories: 16mm film reels, VHS videotape, 3/4" U-Matic videotape, 1" and 2" tap, Beta SP, Betamax, Mini DV, DVD, and born-digital video formats.)

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

The Political Communication Collection, located in the Carl Albert Center Congressional Research and Studies Center Archives, contains political television and radio commercials from the beginning of the 20th century through the present day.

Transcript – Full

Ladies and gentlemen, the Vice President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon. I want to talk to you for a moment about civil rights, equal rights for all our citizens. Why must we vigorously defend them? First, because it is right and just. And second, because we cannot compete successfully with communism if we fail to utilize completely the minds and energies of all of our citizens. And third, the whole world is watching us. When we fail to grant equality to all, that makes news, bad news for America all over the world. Now the record shows there's been more progress in civil rights in the past eight years than in the preceding 80 years, because this administration has insisted on making progress. And I want to continue and speed up that progress. I want to help build a better America for all Americans.