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"Bring Us Together" was a political slogan popularized after the election of Republican candidate Richard Nixon as United States President in 1968. Richard Moore, a friend of Nixon, told the candidate's speechwriters he had seen a child carrying a sign reading "Bring Us Together" at a rally in Deshler, Ohio during the campaign and the speechwriters began inserting the phrase into the candidate's speeches. Nixon mentioned the Deshler rally and the sign in his victory speech on November 6, 1968, adopting the phrase as representing his administration's initial goal—to reunify the bitterly divided country. 13-year-old Vicki Lynne Cole came forward as the person who carried the sign, and was the subject of intense media attention. The phrase "Bring Us Together" was subsequently used ironically by Democrats when Nixon proposed policies they disagreed with or refused to support. In newspaper columns in the 2000s, one former speechwriter expressed doubts that Cole's sign ever existed. (Full article...)
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Hi Wehwalt and anyone else interested: a draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:47, 10 May 2021 (UTC)