Description: Array of political buttons from 1976 presidential campaign mounted on black background: Reagan, Carter/Mondale, Harris, Shriver, Bayh, Ford/Dole, Udall, Wallace. Visuals of politicians: Biden, Kemp, Connally, Hart, Ford, Dole, Carter, Reagan, Bush. Sample of New Hampshire Republican primary ballot.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/13/1978
Description: Interview with Li'l Abner cartoonist and political satirist Al Capp in his Cambridge home. He talks about evading his father's creditors, and scheming to take semesters at various arts schools around the city. He says he likes the Boston view of the world, and talks about the influence Boston has had on his work. He talks about turning conservative. He criticizes American presidents, calling Gerald Ford ‘clumsy’ and Jimmy Carter ‘weak.’ He talks about working on Li'l Abner with a team of men.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/04/1977
Description: ELLIOT RICHARDSON ENDORSED BY GERALD FORD IN REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY AGAINST RAY SHAMIE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1984
Description: ELLIOT RICHARDSON ENDORSED BY GERALD FORD IN REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY AGAINST RAY SHAMIE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1984
Description: Robert Dole addresses Massachusetts building trades representatives. Speaks about construction industry, real estate, and inflation. Defends President Ford. Makes several jokes and makes the audience laugh. Makes sarcastic comments about Jimmy Carter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/16/1976
Description: “Summer of Judgment: The Impeachment Hearings” Retrospective of Nixon impeachment hearings. John Dean, Gerald Ford, Elliot Richardson, other Watergate participants.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/03/1984
Description: Clash between white and Hispanic residents in Lawrence. Gerald Ford visits Boston to endorse Elliot Richardson for Senate. Interview with film director James Ivory and actor Madeleine Potter on Henry James' “The Bostonians” starring Christopher Reeve and Vanessa Redgrave (clip). Artist Maggie Sherman's fanciful plaster face masks of residents of Montgomery, Vermont exhibited at Children's Museum. Anchors Lydon and Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1984
Description: "The 30 Second President" from "A Walk Through the 20th Century" with Bill Moyers. TV campaign ads. Eisenhower, Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, Kennedy, Johnson, Goldwater, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/11/1984