[tanknetter]

Mister we could use a man

Like Herbert Hoover again.

Here's something interesting. In its first version the song went "Mister we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again"

It was changed to "Herbert Hoover" because it was felt that using Coolidge was both too obscure and would help paint Archie and Edith in a more sympathetic light (as opposed to the bigoted a**hole and clueless/enabling wife). Hoover was both still well-remembered and despised by most of the public.

IIRC Lear and Reiner were pretty frikkin' horrified when both characters became almost instantly beloved. Meathead and Gloria were supposed to be the protagonists.

[Buckeye McFrog]

or as the Mad Magazine parody of Archie put it at the time,
“America ain’t laughin’ AT me. They’re laughin’ WITH me!”

[Borges]

Where did you hear that? It’s pretty clear that Archie was the focal point. O’Connor and Stapleton got top billing.

[ansel12]

Lear was disappointed at Archie being liked, but the show was effective as a propaganda vehicle nonetheless and is considered one of the left’s greatest vehicles for changing American culture.

The show was aimed at middle America.

[capydick]

Here's something interesting.

Here's something more interesting:

[Albion Wilde]

Hoover was both still well-remembered and despised by most of the public.

That's because he got the "Bush-hitler" treatment by the Democrat party that wanted to take his place. He was used as a whipping boy for all the evils since the Fall of Rome by all four terms of the commie-infested FDR cabal.

Sound familiar?