Button, George McGovern, 1972
date: label: Date made
content: 1972
name: label: referenced
content: McGovern, George
label: referenced
content: Eagleton, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: After George McGovern, senator from South Dakota, won the nomination at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, the difficult task of selecting his running mate began. Following hours of debate over numerous candidates, Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri was chosen as the vice-presidential candidate. Less than three weeks after the convention, Eagleton withdrew from the ticket in the aftermath of the revelation that he had been hospitalized three times for depression and had twice received electro-shock therapy. He was replaced on the ticket by Sargent Shriver, former head of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. The McGovern-Shriver ticket lost in one of the worst landslides in history to the Republican incumbents President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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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: 2004.0180.288
label: accession number
content: 2004.0180
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0180.288
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: blue; white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in; x 2.8575 cm