Button, Bill Clinton, 1996

Description:

President Bill Clinton ran for re-election in 1996. He defeated his Republican challenger Bob Dole, senator from Kansas. Twenty years earlier, Dole had been the vice-presidential candidate when President Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. These two losses make Dole the only major party candidate in U.S. history to have been nominated for both president and vice president without winning either office.

Date Made: 1996

Depicted: Clinton, Bill

Used: Political Campaigns

Subject:

See more items in: Political and Military History: Political History, Campaign Collection, Government, Politics, and Reform, American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith

Exhibition: American Democracy

Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2001.0194.16Accession Number: 2001.0194Catalog Number: 2001.0194.16

Object Name: Button

Physical Description: multicolored (overall color)metal (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3 in x 2 in; 7.62 cm x 5.08 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-56c9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1198093

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