Anyone remember this?
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.
Darel:
Gerald, not Henry....
Erik is correct. Forgot to mention what Ford it was for.
nope, Darel, I have one of those somewhere and it is the real deal - Ford for president, election of 1976.
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.
Actually his name was Leslie Lynch King before adoption.
So Gerald Ford was a Ford wannabe? - Like a Chebby or Plymouth
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... ;) )
As in Barry AuH2O?
Goldwater...never saw that pin ;^)
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...
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.
I still have some campaign stuff from "Ike and Dick" Can't remember what year that was?
'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--
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
I'm wearing my Coolidge-Dawes button