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songs-used by candidates for the Nation’s highest office.
In addition, excerpts from [addresses by every President since Grover Cleveland, as well as Bryan’s “Cross of Gold Speech,” boom from a concealed phonograph in one area of the exhibition. Music Stirs Voters
Some candidates tried to woo voters musically. Sheet music on display includes such snappy titles as “Get on the Raft With Taft” and “Happy Landin’ With Landon.”
If history repeats itself, so do campaign buttons. A large lapel button of 1940 warned, “Eleanor, start packing, the Willkies are coming.” A 1960 button advised, “Mamie, start packing, the Kennedys are coming.”
The display features some non-campaign items as well. One, an imposing oak desk carved from timbers of the HMS Resolute, served every President from Rutherford B. Hayes to John F. Kennedy.
Among the more unusual items is a stuffed toy bear, proto-type of the dolls that swept the Nation in 1903 after President Theodore Roosevelt spared the life of a cut on a hunting trip. Hie act ol c h a r i t y - - p 1 u s shrewd merchandising-gave the world the beloved “teddy bear.”
Hie exhibit was prepared by Herbert R. Collins, assistant curator of the Smithsonian’: Division of Political History, and was designed by Alfred H McAdams. Politics still is not at exact science, Mr. Collins noted
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