Button, Wendell Willkie, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: Hundreds of buttons were produced to help Republican candidate Wendell Willkie challenge his Democratic opponent President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940. This button attacked FDR for his second term increase in deficit spending caused by the federal public works programs he created in response to Depression-era unemployment. Negative slogans like this one did not help Willkie defeat the incumbent; FDR easily won re-election.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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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: 2015.0200.137
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.137
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm