Tower Visits Eisenhower - John Tower Political Telecast (1961)

Duration: 1:15

Year Published: 1961

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: John Tower, campaigning for the vacant U.S. Senate seat left by Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1961, travels to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to gain the support of fellow Republican and native Texan, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Tower’s election in 1961 has been called historic, winning as a Republican in a southern state that had elected solely Democrat U.S. Senators since the 1870s. In this clip, Eisenhower stresses that the government cannot spend the country out of an economic downturn.