From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and the Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs
Red-bordered electoral poster with a photograph of a large smoke column over a landscape and the text "From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs on the people of Vietnam. They're still doing it in 1972." Below: "Bring the troops home now / Stop the bombing. Vote Socialist Workers: Jenness for President, Pulley for Vice-President." The tell is the single statistic attributed to both major parties with no source or breakdown, used to support a vote appeal.
- Date
- 1972
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Socialist Workers Party national campaign committee (New York)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Nixon Administration
- Leader
- Richard Nixon
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Techniques
- Card stacking
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Library of Congress, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- U.S. publication without copyright notice; LoC: no known restrictions on publication
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Text on the object
From 1965 to 1971 the Democrats and Republicans dropped more than 6 million tons of bombs on the people of Vietnam. They're still doing it in 1972. Bring the troops home now/ Stop the bombing Vote Socialist Workers Jenness for President Pulley for Vice-President [Footer: Socialist Workers Campaign Committee, [illegible] Broadway, New York, N.Y. [illegible]]
Read from a 640 px LoC scan. The footer is very small; only the sponsor type and the city are legible and the rest is marked illegible. The top line is read as 'the Democrats and Republicans' (LoC's catalogue title has 'the Democrats and the Republicans').
