Button, Bob Dole, 1996
date: label: date made
content: 1996
label: associated dates
content: 1996 08 12 / 1996 08 12, 1996 08 16 / 1996 08 16
label: associated dates
content: 1996 08 12 / 1996 08 12, 1996 08 16 / 1996 08 16
label: associated dates
content: 1996 08 12 / 1996 08 12, 1996 08 16 / 1996 08 16
name: label: described
content: Kemp, Jack
notes: label: Description
content: Bob Dole, senator from Kansas, was the 1996 Republican nominee for president. His running mate was Jack Kemp who had previously served as both Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and representative from New York. The Dole-Kemp ticket lost to their Democratic opponents President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.
label: Description
content: Twenty years earlier, Bob Dole had been the vice-presidential candidate on President Gerald Ford’s losing ticket. These two losses make Dole the only major party candidate in U.S. history to have been nominated for both president and vice president without winning either office
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
label: See more items in
content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0282.123
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0282.123
label: accession number
content: 1996.0282
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: round (overall shape)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1 1/4 in; x 3.175 cm