United States. During the presidential campaign, President Lyndon Johnson aired the famous Daisy Advertisement, in which a little girl plucks the petals of a daisy and counts them to 10. Then, a metallic, adult male voice begins counting down, and at zero, the frightening flash of a nuclear explosion fills the screen. Johnson’s voice says: “This is what’s at stake. Create a world where all God’s children can live, or darkness. We must love one another or die.”
