Button, Wendell Willkie, 1940
date: label: date made
content: 1940
notes: label: Description
content: Republican candidate Wendell Willkie looked for many ways to challenge his Democratic opponent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who ran for an unprecedented third term in 1940. This button lampooned the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest of the New Deal agencies Roosevelt had put in place in response to the Great Depression. 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: 2015.0200.132
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0200.132
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm