Hah, this came today, I'm not very political, but I thought these big anti-Bryan tokens were neat and the same seller had the Dukakis bubble gum cigar box with a bubble gum Hubert H. Humphrey, Dick Nixon, George H. W. Bush and, of course, "the Duke" bubble gum cigars. I hope you all find these amusing.
That is sort of like putting together a random group of candidates from 1896 to 1988 with a lot of hopefuls left out in between. Two with "Win with Dick" and "Win with HHH" have to be from 1968. Here are a couple of jugates. Nixon - Agnew. Nixon made some big mistakes. Picking Agnew, who had to resign in disgrace, was one of them. And here is the corresponding Humphrey - Muskie jugate. Here is a selection of buttons from the 1988 campaign.
Oh I forgot. I should also post a Bryan -Sewell jugate from 1896. This was the first year that the modern campaign button was issued during a presidential campaign. And I suppose I should give the Republicans equal time.
It was the only time when both the President and Vice President resigned. John C. Calhoun resigned the vice presidency in 1832 so that he could take one of the South Carolina seats in the Senate. He and Andrew Jackson split over the nullification issue which held that a state could nullify a federal law that was not in its interest. The issue at the time was high tariffs, but slavery was in the wings as a divisive issue.
