Button, Gerald Ford, 1976
date: label: date made
content: 1976
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. This button used a picture of a Model T as a visual play on words to promote Ford for president in his unsuccessful 1976 campaign to retain the position. President Ford lost a close election to his Democratic challenger Jimmy Carter, governor of Georgia.
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: 2015.0200.111
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.111
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm