Clicker, Richard Nixon, 1960
name: label: maker
content: Green Duck Metal Stamping Company
notes: label: Description
content: The Green Duck Company of Chicago created many of the twentieth century’s most popular metal campaign buttons and novelties. This Green Duck noisemaker encouraged the holder to “Click with Dick” as a sign of support for Richard “Dick” Nixon, the 1960 Republican presidential nominee. In addition to a picture of the candidate on the front, the back of this clicker offered operating instructions—“place round edge into cupped palm for loudest sound effect”—which promised to cause a rousing “SNAP.” Nixon supporters did not, in the end, make quite enough noise. Even though he carried more states than his Democratic opponent John F. Kennedy, Nixon lost in the Electoral College and lost the popular vote nationwide by less than two tenths of one percentage point.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John N. Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0589.146
label: accession number
content: 1984.0589
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Clicker
label: Object Name
content: clicker