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William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton won the November 1992 presidential election to become the 42nd President of the United States. Clinton ran on a Democratic platform, focusing on education, health care, and foreign relations. After a successful second campaign in 1996, he was reelected to serve a second term. "Hail to the Chief" is the official Presidential Anthem of the United States that is played during Presidential appearances, as the current President of the United states is the the commander-in-chief of the United states Armed Forces. 

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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician who served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Prior to his role as Vice President, Humphrey also served in the United States Senate representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971-1978. After President Johnson made the surprising announcement that he would not seek re-election in March 1968, Humphrey announced his own bid for the presidency. Choosing Senator Edmond Muskie as his running mate, Humphrey secured the Democratic nomination and faced off against Republican nominee, Richard Nixon. Though Humphrey and Nixon were nearly matched in the popular vote, Nixon won the majority of electoral votes, securing him the election. Upon his defeat, Humphrey returned to the Senate and served until his death in 1978 at the age of 66.

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Author, historian, and US Representative from South Dakota, George McGovern was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1972. McGovern was very outspoken against the Vietnam War, he was supportive of women's rights and the legalization of marijuana. He lost in a landslide to the incumbent Richard Nixon.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president, serving from 1953-1961. Before his election he was a soldier in WWI and a general, leading forces in WWII. He used his reputation of military strength during his presidency to secure a truce between the US and Korea, ending the Korean War in 1953. Eisenhower also eased tensions in the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. His 1952 and 1956 campaign slogan "I Like Ike!" gained rapid popularity and he won both his election and reelection handily.

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This quote is attributed to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was known for his inspiring speeches. 

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 George C. Wallace (1919-1998) was an American politician who served as the Governor of Alabama from 1963-1967, 1971-1979, and 1983-1987 all of which was as a Democrat. In addition, Wallace was also a U.S. Presidential candidate where he ran as a Democrat in 1964, 1972, and 1976. In 1968, however, Wallace ran as the candidate for the American Independent Party (AIP). Wallace is noted for his pro-segregation stance, proclaiming in a 1963 speech that he believed in "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

In 1972, Wallace was the victim of an assassination attempt by Arthur Herman Bremer. Occurring at the Laurel Shopping Center in Laurel, Maryland,Wallace was shot in the abdomen, chest, and spinal cord. Though the assassination failed, Wallace was left paralyzed from the waist down, forcing him into a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Photograph of the United States Capitol Building with inset portrait photographs of Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush.  A wavy section along the bottom of the button is divided into red, white and blue stripes.  White and blue text.

Since 1937, the inauguration for the President of the United States has taken place on January 20th. For Ronald Reagan's second inauguration in 1985, the 20th fell on a Sunday. Electing to wait until the following day to hold the public ceremony, a private ceremony was held to officially begin Reagan and Vice President George H.W. Bush's second tenure in office. On the following day, the public ceremony was held at the United States Capitol Building. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the presidential oath to Reagan while Associate Justice Potter Stewart administered Bush's oath of office. Due to the cold weather at the time, the inauguration cancelled many of its outdoors events, including the customary parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. 

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Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) was sworn in as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. Johnson immediately focused on his campaign to create a "Great Society" and fought for social programs and legislation including Medicare, public broadcasting, and Head Start as well as the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. This time in history has been portrayed in both a play and movie. The play, All the Way, written by Robert Schenkkan and premiered in 2012, takes its title from LBJ's 1964 campaign slogan, "All the Way with LBJ." The story follows President Johnson as he tries to gain allies within the civil rights movement, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and get the US Congress to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The 2016 movie by the same name follows the 2012 play's plot and stars Bryan Cranston as LBJ and Anthony Mackie as MLK.

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George W. Bush was the 43rd president of the United States, serving as a Republican from 2001 to 2009. During his time in office, America experienced the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2008 financial crisis. Many of his responses to these events were widely criticized. Alongside this criticism was a proliferation of anti-Bush novelty items – bumper stickers, coffee mugs, buttons, etc. – that made use of the wordplay of Bush’s name and the derogatory phrase “bullshit”. Some have cited the first use of the BU**SH** wordplay to have been on posters at Bush’s inauguration.

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Harold Stassen was the Republican nominee for the 1948 Presidential elections and when he lost the election, he ran another eight times, earning the name of a perennial candidate. In 1956, Stassen did not run for president, but did serve as the Security Administration Director during Eisenhower’s presidency. During this time, he strongly encouraged Eisenhower to get rid of Richard Nixon at the Republican convention. This in turn lost him favor with many American’s and anti-Stassen supporters began sporting these buttons to show their disfavor towards Stassen.