Button, Bob Dole, 1996
date: label: date made
content: 1996
notes: label: Description
content: Bob Dole, senator from Kansas, the 1996 Republican presidential nominee, lost the election to President Bill Clinton. Twenty years earlier, Dole had been the vice-presidential candidate when President Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. These two losses make Dole the only major party candidate in U.S. history to have been nominated for both president and vice president without winning either office. Dole’s use of the sunflower, the Kansas state flower, was reminiscent of buttons from another Republican presidential campaign sixty years earlier. Alf Landon, governor of Kansas, lost that race too.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0200.184
label: accession number
content: 2015.0200
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content: button