Doll, Ronald Reagan, 1984
Doll, Ronald Reagan, 1984
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- Description
- Ten different candidates received votes in the 1980 Republican presidential primaries but only two, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, proved to be truly competitive. During a primary debate in Pennsylvania, one of the seven primaries he would win that year, Bush referred to Reagan’s economic policies as “voodoo economics.” In spite of their disagreements over these and other programs, when Reagan won the nomination he chose Bush to be his running mate. They easily defeated President Jimmy Carter (Democrat) and Representative John Anderson (Independent). However, the phrase “voodoo economics” stuck. When President Reagan and Vice President Bush ran for re-election in 1984 several versions of a Reagan Voodoo Doll were sold. The incumbents won again in a landslide against Democratic challenger Walter Mondale who had been the vice president on the losing Democratic ticket four years earlier.
- Object Name
- doll
- date made
- 1984
- depicted (sitter)
- Reagan, Ronald Wilson
- maker
- Heather Hutchison
- place made
- United States: New York, Saugerties
- Physical Description
- cotton (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 3 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- 2011.0119.01
- accession number
- 2011.0119
- catalog number
- 2011.0119.01
- Credit Line
- Heather Hutchison
- subject
- Presidents
- Political Caricatures
- Sewing and Knitting
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Political History, Campaign Collection
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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