Look up America! Coca-Cola's patriotic post-Watergate ad campaign was a jolt of Madison Ave. pep for a depressed nation

This patriotic television commercial for Coca-Cola aired on the NBC Nightly News on Aug. 8, 1974. Let’s just say this was not any old broadcast. The nation was hours away from hearing President Richard M. Nixon deliver these words: “I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.”

This ad was said to be part of the Coca-Cola company’s campaign …