Doll, Ronald Reagan, 1984
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Reagan, Ronald Wilson
label: maker
content: Heather Hutchison
notes: label: Description
content: Ten different candidates received votes in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries but only two, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, proved to be truly competitive. During a primary debate in Pennsylvania, one of the seven primaries he would win that year, Bush referred to Reagan’s economic policies as “voodoo economics.” In spite of their disagreements over these and other programs, when Reagan won the nomination he chose Bush to be his running mate. They easily defeated President Jimmy Carter (Democrat) and Representative John Anderson (Independent). However, the phrase “voodoo economics” stuck. When President Reagan and Vice President Bush ran for re-election in 1984 several versions of a Reagan Voodoo Doll were sold. The incumbents won again in a landslide against Democratic challenger Walter Mondale who had been the vice president on the losing Democratic ticket four years earlier.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Saugerties
topic: label: depicted
content: Presidents
label: depicted
content: Political Caricatures
label: general subject association
content: Sewing and Knitting
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Heather Hutchison
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0119.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0119
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0119.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: doll
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 3 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 8.89 cm