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B0S0X87

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Tue Jan-25-05 06:02 PM
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Awesome!!!

My grandmother heard I was interested in politics, so she sent me her large collection of political buttons. There were buttons from Stevenson '56, to McCarthy 68, to Clinton 92, and almost every election in between. There were also quite a few local and state election buttons, a John Lindsay for Mayor and several "Support Israel" buttons that my grandmother got way back when the U.N. was still deciding whether or not to make it a country.

Pretty cool, huh?

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blueknight

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Tue Jan-25-05 06:25 PM
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1. very cool,

and worth money! dont leave those laying around where anyone can get their hands on them. some of those are collector items, and worth money

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bigwillq

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Tue Jan-25-05 06:26 PM
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2. That is cool!

They must be collector's items.

BTW, Welcome to DU!:hi:

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nuxvomica

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Tue Jan-25-05 06:31 PM
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3. Wow! Sounds like a mother lode of memorabilia

Edited on Tue Jan-25-05 06:32 PM by nuxvomica

I wished I had saved some buttons from RFK's senate campaign. We had boxes of them after the election and I used them to build things. Do you have any McGovern/Eagleton buttons?

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B0S0X87

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Tue Jan-25-05 09:01 PM
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4. There's one Vote McGovern button

The biggest haul comes from the McCarthy campaign of '68 when she was the town coordinator for the campaign.

My grandpa enjoys telling stories of how she'd drag him out to rallies and force him to spend his Sunday's canvassing.

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