Button, Wendell Willkie, 1940
date: label: Date made
content: 1940
name: label: referenced
content: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
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 attacked FDR’s popular radio speeches. Negative slogans like this one were unsuccessful as FDR won re-election easily.
topic: label: used
content: Political Campaigns
label: related event
content: Presidential Campaign of 1940
setName: label: See more items in
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: Timothy D. W. Connelly in memory of Gordon Montgomery Connelly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0317.119
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0317.119
label: accession number
content: 2003.0317
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white; blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/8 in; x 3.4925 cm