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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. served as the 38th Vice-President of the United States. After two previous failed attempts at the presidency, supporters wanted Humphrey to run again in the 1976 presidential election. However, he chose not to run when he learned that he had terminal cancer. Humphrey died of cancer in January 1978.

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Harvey Milk (1930-1978), was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, becoming the first openly gay elected official in California history. Milk earned the nickname, “Mayor of Castro Street” after becoming a well-known community leader and business owner of “Castro,” a camera shop. His liberal views clashed with fellow supervisor Dan White, who resigned from the board in 1978. White unsuccessfully attempted to resume his supervisory role and assassinate both Milk and Mayor George Moscone later that year. Milk had only served 11 months, but his legacy has been immortalized in LGBT history and posthumous tributes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by President Barack Obama in 2009. 

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"Had Enough?" was part of Reagan's 1966 campaign for governor of California against the two term incumbent Pat Brown. Four years later in 1970 it was used against him in the his re-election campaign. As the 33^rd governor of California, Reagan's platform was noted for its limited government, welfare reform, efforts to stop student protesting, and substantial elimination of state's budget deficit. 

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George McGovern and Eugene McCarthy were dominant candidates in the Democratic primary campaign of 1968. McCarthy was recruited to run in the primary in an effort to remove incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson from office due to his position on the Vietnam war. McGovern, on the other hand, didn’t join the primary until two weeks before the Democratic National Convention. While neither politician won the Democratic candidacy, both continued to work in the senate against the Vietnam war.

McGovern and McCarthy’s politics were alike in their pursuit to end the Vietnam war. McGovern had been a keynote speaker at several peace demonstrations against the war, and then shifted his focus to try and use legislation to end the war via the McGovern–Hatfield Amendment. Though the Amendment was never ratified, the public recognized McGovern’s intentions and largely agreed with his moral stance on the war. McCarthy, however, had a less amenable reputation in his stance against the Vietnam war and was not equally involved in senate proceedings.

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Charlie Brown, a character from the weekly syndicated comic strip Peanuts, was debuted by Charles M. Schulz on May 30, 1948. Since his release, Brown has been a staple in pop culture and was famously present, in the form of a doll, at the command center for the Apollo 10 launch. His popularity has remained throughout the years inspiring merchandise and memorabilia that channel that sentiment with references to the iconic character. 

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Birch Evans Bayh, Jr. sought the Democratic nomination for the 1976 presidential election and was also a former U.S. Senator from Indiana and Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives.

Bayh is the only non-Founding Father to author two amendments to the U.S. Constitution - the Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965 banning gender discrimination in higher education and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act which provides funds to states that follow protections for the care and treatment of youth in the justice system. Bayh continues to champion causes that he believes in and is currently a longtime Senior Fellow of the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College.

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1968, a presidential election year, was a tumultuous time in American politics. The year was marked by widespread anti-Vietnam War protests and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King’s assassination caused riots across America. Richard Nixon had the Republican nomination for president, Hubert Humphrey had the Democrat nomination, and George Wallace was also running as an Independent. Nixon won the general election by less than 1% of the popular vote, but swept the Electoral College. His victory marked the end of the New Deal coalition which had maintained power since 1932. It also marked the rise of the “Southern strategy” where Republicans courted the vote of traditionally Democrat-voting Southern states. 1968 was also the last election where a third party candidate captured all the electoral votes of a state. The button seen here was worn to encourage citizens to vote Democrat straight down the ticket. 

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Stephen "Big" Hamm, along with Robert "Lil Hamm" Dayton performed as Canadian synth-pop comedy duo Canned Hamm in the 2000s. They marketed themselves first and foremost as entertainers, relying heavily on humor in all three of their studio albums, KARAZMA!, Erotic Thriller, and Sincerely Christmas. Their final album was released in 2007, but their music continued to influence Canadian performers and a tribute album Canned Hamm's KARAZMA: Reimaged was released in 2013, featuring many popular Canadian artists. Although Canned Hamm no longer performs, both Hamm and Dayton are still active artists. Hamm continues to create music both individually and in collaboration with other artists while Dayton focuses primarily on illustrations.

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Heather Jewett also known as Chunx was once part of the band Chunx Gravy Train also known as Gravy Train!!!! The four exclamations represent the four band members Chunx, Funx, Hunx and Junx. Gravy Train!!!!  is a retro-electro band from Oakland, California. Chunx and Funx formed the band in 2001 in order to record humiliating songs about an ex-lover. The band released four albums, two singles and a DVD of their music videos and interviews.  

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On October 3, 1983 the hit English rock band Genesis released its twelfth studio album also named ‘Genesis’. The album sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. and U.K. and went on to earn a Grammy in 1985. ‘Genesis’ went platinum only eight weeks after release and reached double platinum in October 1987 after selling 600,000 copies. The simplistic cover art was used extensively to market and promote the new release. This album is regarded by many critics as the juncture when Genesis fully transitioned into a pop band.