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<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nIn the same bag (above) as 4 of the 5 previous posts (and the one after this), I found Mom\u2019s stash of political memorabilia – some of which supported\/explained\/fleshed-out some of the events featured in the previous post. And all of this ignores a big book of a stamp collection that my father put together in his younger days (and that I found WAY too tedious to post about. Sorry, Dad\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026you should have collected guitars).\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n Mom worked in three presidential campaigns: one win, two losses. Let\u2019s start with the win – Richard Nixon in 1968.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s something that was mailed to Mom in October, 1968:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In it is a whole article about the visit at the Neptune Inn in Paramus by VP-candidate Spiro Agnew, where Mom got one photo from not-close range.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the article:<\/span><\/p>\n I should mention here that some of the articles\/writeups, etc., may be too small to read, so if any historians need to be able to read something, let me know.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The New Jersey Trumpeter of September 1968 tells of Nixon\u2019s visit to South Jersey and some of the noted speakers who lent their support, including someone Mom photographed that I wondered about in the previous post: Texas Senator John Tower:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This brochure features the POTUS\/VP candidates and their families (hard to believe that Tricia and Julie are now in their 70s):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This (well, what\u2019s left of it) is a find! It\u2019s the flyer for Nixon\u2019s visit to Fort Lee, NJ, where Mom photographed him:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the back, it appears that Mom was tallying the national and local races. \u201cBurr\u201d is probably Frank Burr, who was mayor of Teaneck from 1970-1974. I think we know who \u201cHump\u201d is (Nixon beat him):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BUMPER STICKERS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BUTTONS (and matches)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n (anyone notice the error button on top?)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n POSTCARDS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mom addressed this to herself (her handwriting is a dead giveaway) and mailed it on 10-14-68, received it the next day, and – for some reason – squeezed in her title and initials amongst all the candidate names\u2026\u2026\u2026..probably as another Republican for responsible government (though she did not run for office):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Poor Hump. I recall my father once describing him as someone whose entire face was on the bottom half of his head:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ELECTION DAY DOOR HANGER\/REMINDER:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Four years before that victory came this loss by Barry Goldwater in 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n The item with the earliest date is also the spookiest. It\u2019s a letter concerning a campaign kickoff rally at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, NJ on\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.November 22, 1963! (as my mother noted on top). It\u2019s also weird to me because I was on a school bowling team that bowled at Ten Pin On The Mall\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..in the Bergen Mall<\/u> THAT DAY! You\u2019d think it would have been canceled since it was RIGHT after we heard the news in class, but it wasn\u2019t, so at least one of our family members made it to the Bergen Mall that day (nothing to be proud of, but I wrote about it here: https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=11804<\/span><\/a>) :<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know for sure, but I imagine that the rally was probably canceled. I can find nothing about it online.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My mother received this envelope on 3-31-64. Inside were a couple of copies of Goldwater addressing issues. Although each copy shows a Teaneck P.O. Box number, the return address on the envelope was, \u201cBergen Republican Committee For Goldwater Headquarters, 93 Main St, Hackensack, NJ\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some or all of these items may have been in the above envelope:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s the only item addressed to my father – of course, it\u2019s an April 1964 request to the breadwinner for money:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n How thoughtful! This time, they included a check to fill out AND provided space where you could fill in how much your NEXT contribution would be! Here are the fronts and backs of two items:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I wonder how much – if anything- you had to contribute to get this 8×10 of Barry:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I found this beat-up sign and didn\u2019t know where it came from\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.until I flipped it over and read what my mother wrote on it:<\/span><\/p>\n She probably pulled this souvenir off a pole or wall somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s a small blurb about the event (\u201cGolduwater<\/em>\u201d?)<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are two pages from the 10-25-64 New York Sunday News (I had to position them sideways so they\u2019d line up with their ticket partner):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The postcard about the final meeting\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026as you may have guessed by now, Mom wrote the message, but didn\u2019t address it:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE STASH!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bumper stickers:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Buttons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Circus animals:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two items that went well together – ESPECIALLY the Barry-fied elephant, which actually had two holes in its head to insert the back ends of the glasses:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The man himself:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Other Republicans in the Collection<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This would explain the picture of Mom with James L. Buckley in the previous post:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cPeace with honor\u201d was a phrase used by Richard Nixon in a speech on January 23, 1973 to describe the Paris Peace Accords to end the Vietnam War. I think the sticker below it was also from the Vietnam War period:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n What caught my eye was what\u2019s attached to the top one:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guess where IMPKO was from:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure where the elephant on the left came from, but I\u2019m pretty sure the \u201cMax\u201d one came from fellow Teaneck Republican, Max Hasse, who was shown posing with Mom and the County Sheriff in the previous post:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A closeup of the pachyderm and its new shoes:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I recall the name \u201cHenry Hoebel\u201d, but not any of the others:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now we\u2019re going back to the \u201850s:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m assuming that all these items belonged to my mother. If so, these two buttons – and her political leanings – go back as far as the year after she graduated high school, possibly when she started working for IBM:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She DID try to indoctrinate me in 1960, but it didn\u2019t work. 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