It All Depends
You Stupid Kid
Peanuts cartoon with Sally standing on a beach. “You stupid kid, who lives clear across on the other side of the world, send back my beach ball!!” … “What are you, a communist or something?!”
PIRGIM
PIRGIM button. “PIRGIM is a consumer group that stands up to powerful interests whenever they threaten our health and safety, our financial security or our right to fully participate in our democratic society. For decades, we’ve stood up for consumers, countering the influence of big banks, insurers, the oil industry, and other powerful special interests.”
Obama
Button for the presidential election campaign of Barak Obama and Joe Biden.
Clinton Team
A small pin reading “Clinton Team.”
Dukakis Button
Campaign button from the 1988 presidential election, for Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen.
Today's Clarifications
1985 Doonesbury cartoon about Ronald Reagan. Mistakes were made.
Star Wars
Doonesbury cartoon about the “Star Wars” nuclear missile defense system proposed by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Udall
Campaign button for Mo Udall with an environmental theme. Udall sought the Democratic nomination in the 1976 presidential election, but was defeated by Jimmy Carter.
Nixon Eats Lettuce
Button: “Nixon Eats Lettuce” with the eagle logo of the United Farm Workers. From the 1970 “Salad Bowl Strike.”
Unaware
“Today I’m going to be unaware, uninvolved, uncommitted, and self-centered.”
Stop Contra Aid
Tag from a demonstration: “Stop Contra Aid.”
Part of the Solution
Button: “If You Are Not Part of the Solution, You Are Part of the Problem” —Eldridge Cleaver
ACLU
Button: “I am a card-carrying member, ACLU”
The Emperor's New Tie
Cartoon about Ronald Reagan: “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” and “The Emperor Staging a Comeback.”
Russell Golden
Newspaper clipping about Royal Oak Democratic precinct delegate Russell E. Golden.
U.S. Intervention & Apartheid
A badge reading “Stop U.S. Intervention in Central America & End Apartheid in South Africa, Oct. 4, 1987.”