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Dizzy Gillespie 1964 presidential campaign

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28: 20: 83:. When asked why he was running for the presidency, Gillespie replied "Because we need one", this became the slogan for his campaign. Gillespie said that his campaign was not just a publicity stunt but was intended "to take advantage of the votes and publicity I'd receive and to promote change". 27: 183:
to accept Gillespie as an independent candidate for the presidency. Supporters from an initial twenty five states had expressed an interest in supporting Gillespie, but it was decided to focus attention on California.
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to accept Gillespie as an independent candidate. Gillespie eventually withdrew from the race, ran again in 1971, and again withdrew before the election.
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Gillespie's supporters founded the John Birks Society, named for Gillespie's first two names and coined as an obvious rebuke to the right wing
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Gillespie promised that if he were elected, the White House would be renamed the Blues House, and he would have a cabinet composed of
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Gillespie eventually withdrew from the race. The eventual election was won by the incumbent President, the Democrat
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to run for president of the United States in 1964. He ran as an independent
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In 1971, Gillespie announced he would run again but withdrew before the
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and proposed to have a cabinet of other musicians. Previously, his
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Gillespie's campaign was managed by the jazz critic
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Dizzy Gillespie
write-in candidate
booking agency
campaign buttons
Secretary of State of California
jazz
Dizzy Gillespie
write-in candidate
1964 United States presidential campaign
Duke Ellington
Miles Davis
Max Roach
Charles Mingus
Ray Charles
Louis Armstrong
Mary Lou Williams
Thelonious Monk
Malcolm X
Phyllis Diller
Vietnam War
Ralph Gleason
Salt Peanuts
Campaign buttons
booking agency
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King Jr.
collector's item

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