Election year blast from the past...

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 07:05 pm:

Anyone remember this?





Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 08:19 pm:

I am sure that is a make believe button. The buttons I have seen that are original all have Henry's name and/or picture. A clue is the poor quality of the picture of the Model T.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 08:23 pm:

Darel:

Gerald, not Henry....


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 09:17 pm:

Erik is correct. Forgot to mention what Ford it was for.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Haynes on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 - 09:43 pm:

nope, Darel, I have one of those somewhere and it is the real deal - Ford for president, election of 1976.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 11:38 am:

I forgot about Gerald Ford. Do you know his original name was Gerald King? He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He and his sister were adopted by a couple named Ford.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Dallas TX on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 11:54 am:

Actually his name was Leslie Lynch King before adoption.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Fred Dimock, Newfields NH, USA on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 01:35 pm:

So Gerald Ford was a Ford wannabe? - Like a Chebby or Plymouth :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Susanne on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:16 pm:

A Ford Wannabe? That and 4.90 will get you a gallon of gasoline out here!

No, he was a real Ford - kept falling down, running into stuff, and stumbling, yet he would not stop running...

Back to the pins...

I had one of those pins; yes, they really did have them way back when. Of course, I was way too young to vote... --grins-- (I also remember the AuH2O pins... ;) )


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erich Bruckner, Vancouver, WA on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:20 pm:

As in Barry AuH2O?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Sanders-Auburn Al on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:20 pm:

Goldwater...never saw that pin ;^)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Susanne on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:39 pm:

Yep. It was gold, had a little elephant in the corner, his picture, and "AuH20 - Our Next President" in print. Funny how little things like that stick in your mind after so many years... um... no... take that back... it must be a psychic vision from... yeah, channeling my ancestors, that's it!! --giggles--

Ya know... it was a much different GOP then than it is now...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:48 pm:

Ford was not adopted.

His mother remarried when he was two years old.

His stepfather, Gerald Rudolff Ford, never formally adopted him.

His mother and stepfather called him Gerald Rudolff Ford, Jr. but never legally changed his name from Leslie Lynch King, Jr.

In 1935 at age 22, he legally changed his name to Gerald Rudolph Ford, using the more common spelling for his middle name.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Wolf on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:51 pm:

I still have some campaign stuff from "Ike and Dick" Can't remember what year that was?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Susanne on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 07:18 pm:

'52 or '56. '60 was when Dick Nixon ran against Jack Kennedy. When I was studying broadcast, the "great TV debate" and Pasty-faced Ill-fitting-suit Nixon was still used some 20 years later as a huge "what not to do" thing for video presentation...

I wonder how last nights broadcast debate would have fared to that 1960 audience... Or even better, to the audiences back in the '24 election... --grins--


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ricks - Surf City on Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 07:33 pm:

My friend and I decorated his '47 Plymouth for the '56 election with "Ike and Dick" bumper stickers, modified to say, "Dick Ike."

I wonder how many others did that?

rdr


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay F. Cramer on Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 10:51 pm:

I'm wearing my Coolidge-Dawes button


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