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Presidential call button. Coordinates: 38.8974°N 77.0374°W. The red button in a wooden box next to the telephone on the Resolute desk in March 2017. Some presidents of the United States have had a red call button in the Oval Office of the White House that could call aides. The earliest incarnation dates to 1881 or before, and the modern call ...
1916. "America First and America Efficient" – Charles Evans Hughes. "He has kept us out of war." – Woodrow Wilson 1916 U.S. presidential campaign slogan. "He proved the pen mightier than the sword." – Woodrow Wilson 1916 U.S. presidential campaign slogan. "War in the East, Peace in the West, Thank God for Woodrow Wilson."
The silver medal was sold for $4.25 and the tin medal for $1.25. For years, independent medal makers would produce presidential medals to commemorate a specific president's inauguration. In addition, unofficial presidential buttons, ribbons, and badges were produced. All of these became increasingly popular once elaborate inaugural festivities ...
In case that wasn’t already clear from the vetting, the interviews and the obsessive media attention, consider the long — and still lengthening — list of ways one selection shaped decades of ...
Updated May 9, 2019 at 3:41 PM. Clinton-Gore Confederate Campaign Button Surfaces Online. Two buttons for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign that could create trouble for Hillary Clinton's campaign amid ...
A campaign button is a pin used during an election as political advertising for (or against) a candidate or political party, or to proclaim the issues that are part of the political platform. In the United States, political buttons date as far back as President George Washington. [1] They have taken many forms as the technology to create an ...
Whip Inflation Now ( WIN) was a 1974 attempt to spur a grassroots movement to combat inflation in the US, by encouraging personal savings and disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures, urged by U.S. President Gerald Ford. The campaign was later described as "one of the biggest government public relations blunders ever". [2]
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, [2] [3] [4] incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to ...