Yeah, I remember the ad which today is still uncomfortable to watch:

https://youtu.be/dDTBnsqxZ3k

Btw, 555!

Wonderful retrospective.

My Dad took me to the airport to see him in person when I was a kid. They were selling cans of ginger ale called "Gold Water" and I got to take one to school with me and have it during lunch. Too bad I didn't keep it, it might be worth something now.

Thanks, Rex, sometimes it pays to be an old fart :) ........ Rob, I have no recollection of seeing that ad; I only read about it years later. I remember watching the Convention and how Goldwater had to first beat Rockefeller, and later there was this demonstration for a guy named Scranton ........ Porf, I never saw Goldwater in person, but after my mother passed on, we found a picture of my dad with Barry Goldwater wearing a hospital gown. Goldwater had checked into a local hospital for some minor problem and Dad was among a group of doctors who checked him out. Geez, Goldwater was a distinguished looking man

Just to be clear, I never saw the ad when it aired in 1964. I saw it later growing up on another show. It is still hard to watch after all these decades. I have the " Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail Safe" films too. The former is meant to be funny, but the latter was serious and pissed off a lot of people including the US armed forces.

I remember the ad from later TV documentaries. Saw both versions of "Fail Safe". Read the novel, too. I liked the scene in "Dr Strangelove" in which the B-52 crewmen were itemizing their survival gear, including gold coins, a fancy watch and a .45 Automatic. One of them remarked that a guy could have a good time in Las Vegas with all that stuff. For the scientific minded the GOP nominee was known as "AuH2O".

"Survival Kit contents check. In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.... " Major Kong

In the original filming it was Dallas, not Vegas. Was changed due to sensitivities of the Kennedy assassination.

http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post/18178353553/1964-miss-foreign-affairs-by-x-ray-delta

Gentlemen, you cant fight in here! This is The War Room! ... President Merkin Muffley

"Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
General "Buck" Turgidson

Mr President, I hef a pla- .... MEIN FEUHRER! I can WALK! ... The Good Doctor, himself

^^^^^I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor ...... (You would think that, you Commie horndog)

^ I think you're some kind of deviated prevert.

Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence.

^^^ (Never mind that Ripper lunatic, let's get back to the doctor's idea) You mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man; Now, uh, wouldn't that require the uh, abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

^^^^ "Regrettably" yes

^^^^^ Regrettably? What are you, some kind of a deviated Kraut prevert? Why would you regret a 10 to 1 female to male sex ratio? Is it because all the men would be so exhausted satisfying their ten women that they wouldn't have any energy left over for your preversions?

https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y

Dear John. You may think that I didn't catch your obtuse reference, but I did. Did you catch mine?

I did catch it, CML, yo. It was da bomb