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Political Campaign Button, Reagan-Bush, 1980
Columbia Advertising Company1980
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
Former governor of California Ronald Reagan captured the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. His success was a long-awaited victory for the conservative wing of the party. To balance the ticket, Reagan chose the more moderate George W. Bush -- one of his Republican primary opponents. The Reagan-Bush ticket easily won over a lackluster Carter-Mondale Democratic ticket.
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- Title: Political Campaign Button, Reagan-Bush, 1980
- Creator: Columbia Advertising Company
- Date: 1980
- Date Created: 1980
- Location: United States, New York, New York City, Queens, Jamaica
- Subject Keywords: Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004, Bush, George, 1924-, Presidential candidates, Political campaigns, Presidential elections, United States presidents, Buttons (Information artifacts)
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: Digital Collections
- Object Name: Button (Information artifact)
- Object ID: 2011.442.2
- Image ID: THF151139
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Agnes Rosowski Bongero.
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