Top fourth of button has a red background with text in white, with the middle strip of the button below that with blue "Peterson" text on a white background. The bottom half of the button has a blue background with white text curved along the bottom and a white drawing of an eagle with a blue start sits above the text.

Russell W. Peterson served as the Governor of Delaware from 1969-1972, defeating incumbent Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. in the 1968 gubernatorial election. Peterson was a notable environmentalist and the first person to appoint a person of color to the Board of Trustees at the University of Delaware. 

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Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, nominating Spiro Agnew as his running mate. Nixon had first been Vice President under Dwight D. Eisenhower, and had been preparing to run for the presidency for a second time after losing the 1960 election. In 1968 Nixon ran as a Republican against Democratic Hubert Humphrey, and promised voters that he would bring law and order back to the country and would help minorities start small businesses. He won by a small margin, with 43% of the votes, and was inaugurated as 37th President of the United States.

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Taco Bell is one of the American fast-food restaurants serving Mexican-style foods founded by Glen Bell in 1962. The chain expanded where the 100th restaurant opened in 1967 and became open to the public with 325 restaurants in 1970. In 1978, PepsiCo purchased Taco Bell and spun out Taco Bell in late 1997 in Tricon Global Restaurants, which later became known as Yum! Brands. In a competitive fast food chain industry, the majority of restaurants serve burgers, rather than tacos. Taco Bell highlights their non-burger fast food offerings in an attempt to encourage more diners to visit their restaurants.

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The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is an independent association supporting and inspiring future physicians to reshape medicine. Founded in 1950, AMSA strives to provide medical students an opportunity to participate in organized medicine. AMSA has served more than 50 years in transforming medical education for aspiring physicians. Today, AMSA continues to develop innovative ways to improve health care and medical education. The illustration used here is the logo of AMSA used from 1975 to 2009.

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The American Medical Association was founded in 1847 on the premise of promoting public health by representing both physicians and patients. The Code of Medical Ethics lays out the core values of the medical profession and was adopted at the organization’s founding meeting in the same year. The AMA helped to represent the American public against Nazi doctors during the Nuremberg Trials. They are also responsible for making annual physical checkups mainstream, having introduced the idea in 1922 to promote public health.

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Dr. Jerry Schenken (1933-2001) was the Republican candidate for the 1988 election to the United States House of Representatives for Nebraska’s Second District. Dr. Schenken was narrowly defeated by the Democratic candidate, Peter Hoagland.

Dr. Schenken did not run for political office again, but he did stay active in the political realm serving as Nebraska State Republican Party Chairman from 1991 -1995. His impressive medical career spanned more than 35 years of clinical pathology, instructor of pathology, and Director of Pathology at Nebraska Methodist Hospital, and at Children's Hospital where he served until his death in 2001.

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Richard Joseph Lyons was a republican politician born in 1895 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up going to through the Chicago public school system. After graduation, he went to John Marshall Law School, also in Chicago. During his campaign for governor, he ran against the incumbent, Dwight H. Green, for the Republican nomination. He did not win. In 1938 and 1944, Lyons ran against senator Scott W. Lucas, he lost both times. Lyons was on the Illinois House of Representatives from 1929-1939, then on The Illinois Tax Commission from 1941-1943. During this time, he was also on the Mundelein (Illinois) Village Board. Lyons was also deputy director of the Illinois Department of Revenue from 1943-1949 and the director of the Illinois Department of Revenue from 1953 to 1959. Lyons was married to Mary Blache Mitchell and lived in Libertyville, Illinois.

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The expression on this button is a variation of the "Hang in there, Baby" catchphrase featured on a motivational poster designed by photographer Victor Baldwin in 1971. Many versions of the poster were made, mostly featuring a photograph of a cat hanging from a stick, branch, or other object that it attempted to climb or jump on to. Victor Baldwin owned a portrait studio in California and though he photographed many celebrities, his first love was animal photography.