1970 Vintage Poster Honor America Day Bob Hope Nixon Billy Graham Politics Viet

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"HONOR AMERICA DAY 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION FEATURING BOB HOPE AND TOP HOLLYWOOD STARS FIREWORKS AND ENTERTAINMENT --- WASHINGTON MONUMENT GROUNDS"
22 by 17 inch original poster from 1970 for the "HONOR AMERICA DAY" RALLY AND 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION HELD ON THE GROUNDS OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT WITH BOB HOPE, BILLY GRAHAM, GLEN CAMPBELL, ETC., ETC.! Worn/stained at the corners from prior "posting," but a nice example otherwise of this momento of the chaotic summer of 1970 -- Nixon and Hope and Co.'s response to the news of the day -- Kent State killings; Cambodian invasion; etc., etc. Appears to be a fairly scarce poster "survival."
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Honor America Day
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Honor America Day was a rally put together by supporters of President
Richard Nixon
in 1970 to counter national outrage over the
Cambodian invasion
and the
Kent State University killings
. Co-chaired by
Bob Hope
, the rally took place in
Washington, DC
on July 4, 1970.
[1]
[2]
Billy Graham
gave the
keynote address
:
"But I want to tell you it's tremendously heartening to see these thousands of people from all over the country, and it proves one thing, the railroads are still running. And we have telegrams from thousands of others who wished they could be with us, but they are still stacked up over the airport. That's one nice thing about America, you can get a crowd like this together even without a football game, and what a gathering. President Nixon saw this crowd and said 'My God, what did Agnew [Vice President
Spiro Agnew
] say now.' And Spiro looked out of his window, saw this crowd and said, 'My God, what a great time to say something.'"
[1]
Some people saw it as a political pro war rally and protested by jumping in the pool and chanting antiwar slogans.
[3]
A
live album
of the event, titled
Proudly They Came...to Honor America
was later released.
The columnist Art Buchwald noted, ‘any professional politician knows that when the public sees Billy Graham, Bob Hope and
Lawrence Welk
on the platform, the Nixon Administration will be the only ones enjoying the fireworks.’