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ARTIFACTS COLLECTION SUBGROUP: BUTTONS CATEGORY SCOPE & CONTENT The Buttons Category consists of two hundred and thirty-two artifacts arranged into the sub-categories of Family, NASA and Senate. The lone item in the Family sub-category is an original button from one of the presidential campaigns of Franklin Roosevelt. The category also contains sixteen buttons pertaining to John Glenn’s career as a NASA astronaut. Six of these buttons date from Glenn’s Friendship 7 space flight, while five other buttons pertain to his return to space in 1998 as a crewmember on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95. The collection also contains two souvenir buttons commemorating the tragic launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. The bulk of the items in the category are political buttons from election campaigns or buttons supporting a particular public policy issue. The issue buttons advocate a variety of topics of importance to Senator John Glenn, such as veterans’ affairs, children, energy, education, women's rights, and the economy. The campaign buttons consist of numerous items from Glenn’s various senatorial elections and from his 1984 presidential campaign. Also dating from the 1984 presidential campaign are an assortment of buttons opposing the administration and policies of President Ronald Reagan. Other campaign buttons pertain to presidential elections dating from 1972 to 2004 and to campaigns of state and national Democratic candidates endorsed by Senator Glenn. The Buttons Category also contains John Glenn’s delegate badges from the Democratic National Conventions of 1972, 1980, and 1988. |
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A listing of the
artifacts in the Buttons Category is available
through the Descriptive Listing link below. To view
photographs of the buttons click on the Photo
Gallery link. |
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