Button, Gerald Ford, 1976
date: label: Date made
content: 1976
name: label: depicted
content: Ford, Gerald R.
label: depicted
content: Dole, Bob
notes: label: Description
content: Gerald Ford is the only individual to have served as both vice president and president without having been elected to either position. After almost 25 years representing Michigan in the US House, Ford was selected as Richard Nixon’s vice president upon the resignation of Spiro Agnew in December 1973. Eight months later Ford became president following President Nixon’s own resignation. In 1976, President Ford ran for election to a full term in his own right choosing as his running mate Bob Dole, senator from Kansas. They were defeated by Democrats Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. Interestingly, all four of these men were at various times the losing candidate for president—Ford in 1976, Carter in 1980, Mondale in 1984, and Dole in 1996.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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: 2003.0340.06
label: accession number
content: 2003.0340
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0340.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black; white; red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in; x 8.89 cm