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Flashback: When Dick Cheney’s Heart Attack Was a Political Positive

Hulu, the greatest time-waste in the history of the second hand, takes us on a trip down Amnesia Lane with Historic Campaign Ads. Among them is this one from Dick Cheney's 1978 Congressional campaign in Wyoming -- and it's all about his heart attack. Also, after the jump, Lyndon Johnson's...
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Hulu, the greatest time-waste in the history of the second hand, takes us on a trip down Amnesia Lane with Historic Campaign Ads. Among them is this one from Dick Cheney’s 1978 Congressional campaign in Wyoming — and it’s all about his heart attack. Also, after the jump, Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” ad, next to which damned near every other political ad before or since looks downright timid. –Robert Wilonsky

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