Clicker, Richard Nixon, 1960
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: associated person
content: Nixon, Richard M.
notes: label: Description
content: The Green Duck Company of Chicago created many of the twentieth century’s most popular metal campaign buttons and novelties. This Green Duck noisemaker encouraged the holder to “Click with Dick” as a sign of support for Richard “Dick” Nixon, the 1960 Republican presidential nominee. In addition to a picture of the candidate on the front, the back of this clicker offered operating instructions—“place round edge into cupped palm for loudest sound effect”—which promised to cause a rousing “SNAP.” Nixon supporters did not, in the end, make quite enough noise. Even though he carried more states than his Democratic opponent John F. Kennedy, Nixon lost in the Electoral College and lost the popular vote nationwide by less than two tenths of one percentage point.
topic: label: general subject association
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.227739.1960.X231
label: catalog number
content: 227739.1960.X231
label: accession number
content: 227739
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Clicker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black, white, gray (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 3.81 cm