Spiro Agnew Watch!

[bigsky]

No it is not a YachtZee. It is what I think of everytime I read the threads titles. I had it for years but sometime in the 1980s before I settled down it went missing. The hands went backward and the numbers were backward too.

But it's a legit discussion as well as a joke. What political memorabilia (and yes I looked up the spelling, easier than tschotsche) do you all have? I have a Nixon candle, Nixon buttons, Nixon matches and a really nice Nixon trash bag. Also a George Wallace button. And my own stuff of course. All legit to the era. "Nixon Now More than Ever!" is one I break out pretty often because, well, there have been some administrations making me think the most liberal President of the 20th century might do some good right now.

I shook Nixon's hand in downtown Louisville in I think 1970 after the famous baseball all star game in Cincinnati.

Anyway, you got any good political stuff? Phyllis George signed underwear? Turtle Tee shirts?

[UKFlounder]

1860 Lincoln and Hamlin ferrotype from 1860.the Hamlin side is in rough shape, but the Lincoln side is excellent. It looks like this but in lesser shape https://www.loriferber.com/amp/linco...xoCsoIQAvD_BwE

I have a book that published the 1858 Douglas debates.i forget if it was published in 18t9 or 1859 but it is a period piece. I have another period book of one of his funeral obsequies.

I have other old Lincoln books and some busts as well. Some early 1900s postcards of Lincoln and of Decoration Day scenes. That may not be political, but there are some neat scenes, certainly more “serious” than some of the lip service given to Memorial Day today.

I might have a 1909 Lincoln penny and an old piece of paper money with him on it too.

I have a George McClellan for President token from 1864 and a Jefferson Davis postage stamp which I think is from a few years after the war.

Somewhere is a paper ballot (Republican ticket) from one of Lincoln’s elections. It was ftom Ohio but I forget if it is 1860 or 64. I might still have a California one too

‘I wish I was still collecting stuff.

Not the most diverse collection, LOL

My grandpa went to Reagan’s inauguration in 1981. I think there is still a souvenir pennant around here somewhere.

[Darrell KSR]

I was thinking that UKFlounder might have some. That paper ballot from one of Lincoln's elections is really cool.

I know that at one time I had some things from Nixon and Reagan but I'm afraid that they stayed in my Dad's house after I moved away and somehow got lost when he moved and later passed. Never found them. Also never found several composition notebooks in which he had written numerous short stories, which is another story for another day (and a huge regret).

[bigsky]

That Lincoln stuff is amazing, flounder. I hear you about collecting but what the heck are my kids gonna do with my deaccessioned childrens books about Robert E Lee, Whaling, biographies, children's stories,young adult, etc. c



Mine is all from my Grandfather in Kentucky. He was an early Republican switch in a county that was ALWAYS democrat and it got him some stuff from that era. Waltr had a big coin collection too

[UKFlounder]

I kind of figured I’ll leave mine to the local historical society and they can add it to their collection or sell it to raise funds.

[IkeCat]

I have an 'I like Ike' button, a Bern hat & shirt, a ROSS perot 'I'LL Fix It' shirt. There used to be a second distrct congressmen from Michigan, Dave Camp (R) and when told him I was from 2nd congessional from KY and a name the same as him, he sent me a couple of boxes of a variety of things, couldn't see that happening the ways are today. We had a good run though...sad

Also I was on USS Saratoga in the med when the whole fleet had a firepower demonstration but you had to wear your dress uniform to see Nixon. I did get his signature....on my discharge papers.

This was the Viet Nam era when there were LOCAL draft boards, so if you didn't have some pull you either joined or got drafted. Turns out that about halfway into my enlistment, they started a lottery (they were running out of po' folks).

I literally cried when I saw them pushing the carriers to make room for people.

THE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY SAME, HUH?

[MickintheHam]

I have a pin that is a gold elephant wearing thick rimmed black glasses. It was given to me when I worked on the Barry Goldwater campaign in 1964. I may be the only person on the planet who volunteered on both the Goldwater and George McGovern Presidential campaigns.