Button, Ronald Reagan, 1980
date: label: date made
content: 1980
label: associated date
content: 1980
name: label: associated person
content: Reagan, Ronald
label: associated person
content: Bush, George, H. W.
label: associated institution
content: Republican National Party
notes: label: Description
content: The 1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, chose George H.W. Bush, his chief competitor for the nomination, to be his running mate. Although they had disagreed on several substantive issues, when asked to join the ticket, Bush assured Reagan that he would support the Republican platform in its entirety. Reagan and Bush defeated their Democratic opponents President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale by almost ten percentage points. This was the biggest deficit suffered by an incumbent president since President Herbert Hoover lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt by more than 17 percentage points in 1932. John Anderson and Patrick Lucey (Independent) also lost to Reagan, finishing a distant third.
topic: label: general subject association
content: Political Campaigns
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
label: See more items in
content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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: 1980.0516.56
label: accession number
content: 1980.0516
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0516.56
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: textile; metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white, red (ribbon color)
label: Physical Description
content: red, white, blue (button color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 3.81 cm