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Politics and Camp
“To Bring Home the Quality of Violence”
President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007) superimposed onto publicity still from Bonnie and Clyde, with Michael J. Pollard (b. 1939), ca. 1968. Poster. Yanker Poster Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (155.02.00)
[Digital ID # yan-1a38772]
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Political Speech
Spiro Agnew’s Gridiron Club Speech
Bob Hope and staff writers. Note cards of jokes for Spiro Agnew to use at Gridiron Club dinner, Washington, D.C., March 13, 1971. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (156.00.00-156.00.07, 156.00.09, 156.0012, 156.00.13)
[Digital ID# bhp0156p1—bhp0156p7, bhp0156p9, bhp0156p10, bhp0156p12]
Bob Hope and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (158.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0158]
Jules Feiffer’s United Nations Plaza Speech
Jules Feiffer. Notes for talk at United Nations Plaza, November 14, 1969. Jules Feiffer Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (157.00.00-157.00.11)
[Digital ID# bhp0157 – bhp0157p11]
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Hope and the Presidents
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)
Bob Hope and Dwight D. Eisenhower, October 24, 1946. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (160.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0160]
Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Bob Hope, July 13, 1965. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (161.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0161]
Letter from President Dwight David Eisenhower to Chairman of the Bob Hope-USO Dinner, March 15, 1966. Typescript. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (161.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0161_01]
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963)
Bob Hope entertains President John F. Kennedy and Representative James Roosevelt (1907–1991) at Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation Dinner, May 30, 1961. Reprinted in “Bob Hope, Favorite Jester of the Western World.” American Weekly, April 14, 1963. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (160.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0160_01]
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973)
Jerry Colonna (1904–1986), Bob Hope, Johnny Grant (1923–2008), President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Tony Hope (1940–2004) on the White House putting green, April 1, 1966. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (162.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0162]
Letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Bob Hope, December 2, 1966. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (163.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0163]
Letter from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Bob Hope, May 25, 1964. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (163.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0163_01]
Richard M. Nixon (1913–1994)
Bob Hope greets President Richard M. Nixon, who had just landed in the presidential helicopter on Hope’s lawn, January 3, 1970. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (164.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0164]
Letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Bob Hope, June 6, 1974. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (165.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0165]
Letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Bob Hope, December 30, 1987. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (165.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0165_01]
Letter from President Richard M. Nixon to Bob and Dolores Hope, May 15, 1972. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (165.02.00)
[DIgital ID # bhp0165_02]
Gerald R. Ford (1913–2006)
Telegram from Bob Hope to President Gerald R. Ford, September 9, 1974. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (167.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0167]
Bob Hope and President Gerald R. Ford, undated. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (166.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0166]
Letter from President Gerald Ford to Bob Hope, October 11, 1974. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (167.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0167_02]
Letter from President Gerald R. Ford to Bob Hope, June 3, 1979. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (167.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0167_01]
Jimmy Carter (b. 1924)
Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Bob Hope, January 10, 1979. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (168.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0168]
Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Bob Hope, January 2, 1988. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (168.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0168_01]
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
Bob Hope, President Ronald Reagan, and Vice President George H. W. Bush (b. 1924), undated. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (169.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0169]
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Bob Hope, October 27, 1981. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (170.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0170]
Letter from President Ronald Reagan to Bob Hope, May 25, 1982. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (170.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0170_01]
George H. W. Bush (b. 1924)
Letter from President George H. W. Bush to Bob Hope, January 21, 1991. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (171.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0171]
Letter from Vice President George H. W. Bush to Bob Hope, June 8, 1983. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (171.01.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0171_01]
Bill Clinton (b. 1946)
Bob Hope and President Bill Clinton at National Medal of Arts presentations on the South Lawn of the White House, October 5, 1995. Copyprint. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (172.00.00)
[Digital ID# bhp0172]
Letter from President Bill Clinton to Dolores and Bob Hope, February 18, 1995. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (171.02.00)
[Digital ID # bhp0171_02]
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Entertainers in Politics
Mayor Bob Hope
Walt Disney (1901–1966). “All I asked him was to appoint me commissioner in charge of Dorothy Lamour,” 1948. Reproduction. Bob Hope Collection, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID # bhp0501]
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
Photograph from the film Fistful of Dollars, 1967. New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24317]
Al Franken (b. 1951)
Photograph from Saturday Night Live, May 13, 1989. Courtesy of the NBC Universal Photo Bank
[Digital ID# bhp0539]
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004)
Governor Ronald Reagan, 1966. New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24319]
Sonny Bono (1935–1998)
Sonny and Cher, TV Guide, July 14–20, 1973. Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID# bhp0538]
George Murphy (1902–1992)
George Murphy, with Gale Storm (1922-2009) and Cesar Romero (1907-1994), September 14, 1964. New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24316]
Shirley Temple Black (b. 1928)
Shirley Temple Black with Vice President Richard Nixon (1913–1994), 1960. New York World-Telegram and Sun Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
[Digital ID# ppmsca-24323]
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