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The original 1964 ad for lyndon johnson, and partner for senior creative people, sid myers. hi, sid. >> hi, good to see you guys again. >> good to see you again. what do you think of your ad being reprised 52 years later? >> i'm kind of proud they think it's worthwhile. it's still pertinent today as it was 50 years ago. it's the same problem. >> how so? how do you think it manifests today? the daisy ad is how it was referred to in '64, was particularly resonant, because it was the invocation to the nuclear age and that this is a possibility. how do you think it resonates today? >> it resonat...

To say that he wants to give the rights to the nuclear weapons to saudi arabia, to japan. it's just, it's just, it's just a nightmare. and it will -- you know, and he says he wants to bring jobs back to the united states. you can't bring jobs back to the united states if the united states is in ashes. >> but you know what's interesting, sid, is that this is not -- i mean, nuclear war is not on the top of what voters say are their biggest concerns. they think about the economy, they think about jobs, and they think about terrorism. i mean, terrorism might be today's version of sort of the apoca...

Of the issues of the time. skpfr we -- anddid that for the time in 1964. we took the issues of nuclear proliferation, poverty, selling the tva. we did 23 different commercials just on all domestic issues. >> well, sid, thanks so much for sharing your sort of process with us. one little known fact, that daisy ad so famous, only ran once. and that was it. but everybody knows it, because it was then talked about so much on the evening news and everywhere else. sid, thank you. >> the more important your words, the fewer you have to say. sid, thank you very much. appreciate it. time for "newsroom" ...