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Founded in 1942 by Gerald L. K. Smith, the Christian Nationalist Crusade was an American political organization  headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. The organization promoted anti-Semitic and racist views, supporting segregation and distributing publications to "preserve America’s Christian roots." The group’s headquarters moved to California in the early 1950s before disbanding in the late 1970s. 

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Beginning in September 1965, the Delano grape strike was organized by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee and the United Farm Workers against grape growers in California. The strike lasted over five years and ended with a consumer boycott of nonunion grapes.The strike began when farm workers refused to work while demanding federal minimum wages. The strike gained national attention and by 1970, the UFW was able to reach a collective bargaining agreement with the grape growers that affected nearly 10,000 workers.

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Ronald Reagan was an actor and a politician who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989. In 1982, Reagan reversed his position on the draft policy, angering leaders of the anti-draft movement. The President ordered the draft registration program to be extended indefinitely after he originally denounced the revival of the program under President Carter two years earlier. The ACLU condemned the move and pointed out that the government had already wasted millions of dollars trying to enforce a law that the President wanted to abolish. 

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Dan Weisz ran a campaign McHenry County Circuit Judge. Using coattail campaigning, he tried to tie support for the Presidential nominee to his own campaign citing the presidential candidates he supported, namely Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Weisz began Weisz & Michling in Woodstock, Illinois, in 1981 providing council and representation in multiple areas of law practice and served until his death 2005. He was never elected to office.

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In October of 1979, the United States allowed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to enter the country for cancer treatment. This made Ruhollah Khomeini, the Grand Ayatollah of Iran and his people angry because the Shah was supposed to stand trial in Iran. In response, a group of college students took control of the American Embassy in Tehran with support from the Ayatollah and held 52 people hostage in what is known as the Iran hostage crisis. The crisis was resolved in January 1981 via the Algeria Declaration and the hostages were freed, but afterwards the relationship between Iran and the United States was damaged and the U.S. imposed sanctions against Iran.

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Anti-Nixonites for Nixon was a Richard M. Nixon advertisement for his 1972 U.S. presidential campaign against candidate George McGovern. The slogan was created to emphasize the distrust of McGovern by saying Nixon was a better choice, despite representing different values. One letter addressing the Democratic National Convention stated “the worst thing said about Nixon is that he cannot be trusted, which is true: he cannot be trusted to save this country. But one thing is certain: McGovern can destroy it.”

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Wendell Willkie was a lawyer and business man who ran for President in 1940 as the Republican nominee. He lost the presidential race to Franklin D. Roosevelt who served four terms as President. Willkie was a WWI veteran who saw no action during the war and later served as the president of the Akron Bar Association after becoming a lawyer. He attempted to run for President again in 1944, but lost the nomination to Thomas Dewey.

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In the 1964 U.S. Presidential Election Lyndon B. Johnson ran for office on the Democratic ticket. His campaign slogan: “All the Way With LBJ” resonated with Americans due to Johnson’s amiable nature and take-charge attitude. However, during his term the Vietnam War, the increased expenditures from Johnson’s Great Society policies, and a slowdown of the economy led to many characterizing his actions as idealistic and impractical. This sentiment is captured in the artwork both mocking his famed slogan while depicting a mushroom cloud formed from detonation of a nuclear weapon to insinuate Johnson’s policies would lead to disaster for the United States.  

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Voters elected Democrat Jimmy Carter as the 39th United States President in 1976. His Vice President was U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota. They captured 50.1 percent of the vote beating Republican candidate Gerald Ford and his running mate Bob Dole. Carter and Mondale remained in the White House until 1981 after losing the 1980 election to Republican Ronald Reagan and his running mate George H.W. Bush.

The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, or UAW, Region 10  was made up of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, and North and South Dakota. Most of UAW Region 10’s membership was in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s automobile and agriculture industries. UAW was founded in 1935, and Region 10 formed in 1949 after Region 4 was split. Region 10 rejoined with Region 4 in 1992.

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