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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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Prior to running for the U.S. presidency, Ronald Reagan was the governor of California for two terms and served from 1967 to 1975. Pat Brown, the Democratic incumbent, tried to use Reagan’s career as an actor and lack of political experience against him. However, Reagan managed to win Californians over by promising to run the state more efficiently. In the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections, Reagan won more votes than his Democratic opponents and carried the state of California, though it was the last time a Republican presidential candidate would do so. Later in his life, Reagan retired to his home in Los Angeles when California was no longer regarded as “Reagan Country.”

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Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, ran for president of the United States with U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota as his running mate in 1976. His campaign buttons and other materials were green and white. The green symbolized Carter’s agricultural experience as a peanut farmer. Voters elected Carter as the 39th president. He took 50.1 percent of the vote compared to Republican candidate Gerald Ford and his running mate Bob Dole who captured 48 percent of the vote. 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. After losing the election, Carter returned to his hometown of Plains, Georgia, and his peanut farm.

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Jimmy Carter was the Democratic nominee for the United States Presidency in 1976. He won the popular vote at 50.1 percent beating Republican Gerald Ford. Carter served as the 39th president from 1977 to 1981.  However, in Illinois state in 1976, Ford won the popular vote with 50.1 percent, and in Kane County, Illinois, 62.2 percent of voters favored Ford while 35.7 percent of voters chose Carter. From 1856 to 2004, Kane County has voted for Republican candidates every election except for 1912 when the Republican Party nominated incumbent President William Taft and former President Theodore Roosevelt ran under the Progressive Party he created. Kane County voted for Roosevelt at 64.3 percent. Since 2008 Kane County has voted for Democrats.

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Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy was the Democratic candidate in for U.S. President in 1960. Despite his youth, lack of foreign policy experience, and Catholic upbringing, Kennedy managed to capture enough electoral votes to beat his Republican opponent Richard M. Nixon. 

While in office, Kennedy gifted his Secret Service agent Warren “Woody” Taylor a simple red-and-white pin-back button that read “Jack” from his presidential campaign—just like the one seen here. Taylor served as an agent in the White House from 1961 to 1982 and even rode in the follow-up car with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson when Kennedy was assassinated. Following Kennedy’s murder, Taylor was assigned to protect the incoming First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, for the duration of her husband’s terms as President.

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The Building and Construction Trades Department was founded in 1908 and manages building and construction trade unions that belong to the AFL-CIO. They dictate how work is assigned at sites, mediate disputes, and coordinates local unions. Certain members supported James "Jimmy" Carter and Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale in the 1976 presidential election. Carter and Mondal were elected as the 39th President of the United States and 42nd Vice President of the United States, respectively, and were in office from 1977-1981.

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In June and July of 1952, the American Medical Association (AMA) convention, the Republican National Convention, and the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, in that order. That was not the only connection between the three events: several AMA members at the time were political figures or elected representatives, including presidential electors and delegates for both major parties.

Ethicon is a manufacturer of sutures and other medical supplies (and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). The company grew in the 1950s and 1960s, and Ethicon may have seen the AMA convention in June as an opportunity to attract attention from AMA members with political clout, especially with the two major party conventions coming up in July. The button pictured here has a twin, with the Republican elephant endorsing the company.

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In June and July of 1952, the American Medical Association (AMA) convention, the Republican National Convention, and the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, in that order. That was not the only connection between the three events: several AMA members at the time were political figures or elected representatives, including presidential electors and delegates for both major parties.

Ethicon is a manufacturer of sutures and other medical supplies (and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). The company grew in the 1950s and 1960s, and Ethicon may have seen the AMA convention in June as an opportunity to attract attention from AMA members with political clout, especially with the two major party conventions coming up in July. The button pictured here has a twin, with the Democratic donkey endorsing the company.