Retro Campaigns

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President Taft accepts the 1912 Republican Party nomination at the White House. The Notification Committee traveled from Chicago on August 1st so Taft could formally accept the party’s nomination. The actual ceremony took place in the East Room of the White House, with hundreds of prominent Republicans attending. Photo from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Richard Nixon for president, 1972

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Ronald Reagan’s farewell address, January 11, 1989

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JFK and his beloved boat, the Victura, and 14-year old Ted Kennedy.

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Theodore Roosevelt / Charles Fairbanks 1904 Campaign Poster. Seen in the new Library of Congress book of presidential campaign posters, available here: www.loc.gov/...

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FDR and Winston Churchill

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George H.W. Bush & Bill Clinton

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Though Ted Kennedy, at the time the Senate Majority Whip, was considered a favorite going into the 1972 presidential campaign season, he declined to seek the Democratic Party nomination.

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First Ladies’ Club (Jackie & Nancy)

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"Hyde Park on the Hudson" trailer. The film, starring starring Bill Murray and Laura Linney, takes place in June of 1939 when President Franklin Roosevelt (Murray) invited Queen Elizabeth and King George VI to visit his country home. It was the first time a reigning British monarch visited the United States, and yes, hot dogs were on the menu.

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Jack and Jackie

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President Coolidge dressing up for the 4th of July, 1927.

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Andover Cheerleader George W. Bush with Megaphone

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I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

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Reagonomics doll.

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Carter / Mondale button.

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Bill Clinton with his chocolate labrador retriever Buddy

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Robert Kennedy

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Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson: “The Galena Tanner” and “The Natick shoemaker.” 1872 presidential campaign poster designed to garner support from the working class. Before the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant worked in his family’s leather goods store in Galena, Illinois, and his vice presidential nominee, Henry Wilson, was formerly a shoemaker in Natick, Massachusetts. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)

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1984 - "Louisiana Reagan Cajuns." Ronald Reagan campaign button

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Former President Dwight Eisenhower advising President Lyndon Johnson.

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Jimmy Carter aboard “Peanut One,” his 1976 presidential campaign plane. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)

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"Never Swap Horses When You’re Crossing a Stream." An adage often trotted out by political incumbents, particularly during a war or on the eve of a potential war, supporters of President Woodrow Wilson turned “Never swap horses when you’re crossing a stream” (sometimes heard as “Don’t swap horses in the middle of a stream”) into a campaign song in 1916.

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William Jennings Bryan, presidential candidate in 1896, 1900 and 1908, was a highly sought after public speaker and a common headliner on the “Circuit Chautauqua,” a traveling series of lectures, musical numbers and other performances popular in the early 1900s.

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Presidential campaign poster for George Romney.

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Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of Abraham Lincoln to live to adulthood. This was taken in 1922 at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Robert was at Abraham Lincoln's bedside at his death. Robert Lincoln was also at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881, and witnessed the assassination of President James Garfield. At the time Lincoln was serving as Garfield's Secretary of War.

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The strange story of the assassination of James Garfield.

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Political Textile. James Garfield and Chester Arthur.

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Benjamin Harrison Embroidered Campaign Ribbon by Cornell University Library, via Flickr

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George McGovern 1972 Campaign button

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1992 Ross Perot campaign button.

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Teddy Roosevelt

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President Herbert Hoover as a young man. New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

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Robert Kennedy campaign poster, 1968

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Ted Kennedy’s last chance to unseat President Jimmy Carter in 1980 was to try and wrest votes at the Democratic National Convention from the roughly 2,000 delegates who’d already been committed to Carter during the primaries. The delegates were bound by Democratic Rule F3C, requiring them to vote for whomever they’d been pledged, but Kennedy and his supporters argued that this was unfair, calling F3C the “robot rule.”

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"Coolidge as a cucumber" [from mwood03.tumblr.com]

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John Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign. Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

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Chisholm campaign button - "catalyst for change"

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Ford's campaign button.

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Truman button.

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Eisenhower & Nixon

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Teddy Roosevelt [from bowiekat.tumblr.com]

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"Hubert Humphrey: The People’s President." Humphrey, bested by Richard Nixon for the presidency in 1968, again sought the Democratic Party nomination in 1972, but was defeated by George McGovern.

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Warren Harding [from harrypotterg33k.t...]

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Ronald Reagan - Turf Cigarettes Film Star Card No. 27. Issued with packs of Turf Cigarettes in 1947.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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James Buchanan, ambassador to the United Kingdom (nicknamed “Old Buck”), was the 1856 Democratic Party candidate, along with his vice presidential nominee, John C. Breckinridge. Buchanan defeated Republican candidate John C. Frémont and Former President Millard Fillmore, now represernting the “Know Nothing Party.” James Buchanan silk campaign ribbon from Heritage Auctions (HA.com)

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Lana Turner & Ronald Reagan

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"McKinley, our hero now at rest …" Sheet music to a song commemorating President William McKinley, who died September 14, 1901. Source: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Music Division

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