I added this hand held funeral home fan to my political collection this week. I imagine the funeral home used it as a memorial to the revered president, but the photo is one that was used on some of his political items. It will make a nice centerpiece as display of my FDR political buttons.
Nine years ago I posted this about one of the items in my political collection...
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8-6-2014
I suspect this document indicates that my beloved Daddy Shaw, one of the finest men I've ever known, would have, unfortunately, sided with ol' Red Suspenders' faction.
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| This new-to-me iPhone photos feature is kinda interesting. Of course it did mangle the back Senator Warnock's had a bit. |
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| Yours Truly with the Senator this morning. |
Senator Raphael Warnock visited Rome this morning and I got to hear him. His stump speech is dynamic. He is clear-eyed and principled. He is also pragmatic. He realizes that America was built on tough compromises, so he is willing to work across the aisle always toward progressive ideals but respecting those who disagree and working with them to forge compromises that bend the arc of history toward justice.
Now, he has an opponent. As painful as it is to speak the truths that must be spoken about this opponent we all cheered for on the football field, we must compare the two. They are our binary choice in this campaign to represent Georgia for the next 6 years.
Can you imagine that the opponent who has lied about almost every aspect of his life during and before the campaign with be an honest face of Georgia in the Senate?
Can you imagine that the opponent who spends his time on the campaign trail talking about werewolves and vampires can understand and negotiate the intricacies of the legislation he will asked to debate in the world's most deliberative body?
Listen to the stump speech of Senator Warnock. Can you imagine that his opponent could put his thoughts together so cogently?
Raphael Warnock has made himself a leader in the US Senate in only two years. He proposed, negotiated, and helped write legislation that has brought millions of federal dollars to Floyd County, Georgia for critical infrastructure and services and that has helped to reduce prescription drug prices, especially the prices for diabetes treatments. He worked to bring computer chip manufacturing back to the United States -- that's a big economic victory but is also important to our national security.
Please join me at the polls.
Several years ago when Mike Bock visited us he brought a canna plant as a gift for us. We have kept it in a pot by the back steps and greatly enjoyed it. He visited again last weekend and again brought a canna, this time a "Tropicana" variety. Wow! The. leaves are as pretty as the flowers. Here is a close-up off the green canna leaf and another of the new "Tropicana" canna.
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| Me & Franklin |
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| Democratic donkey |
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| Three flashers and three celluloid buttons for my collection. |
In the seventies Sheila and I were active in the Rome chapter of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) We participated in some marches in support of the Equal Rights Amendment. This si a banner we created for one of those marches. I think we tacked it to some wooden posts so two people could carry it upright down the street. I ran across it today while looking for something-else in a closet and decided to take a picture. I wonder if we have a picture of us with it from back in the day?
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| To get a picture of the 9'x3' sign I placed it on the hallway floor, then climbed the stairs and held the camera through the ballusters to take the picture below. |
I keep an audiobook in my car cd player and my current book is a biography of Wilson. Fascinating, brilliant, and contradictory man.
Later note: Well, the button sold at that price.
And because of that choice --- AND because of all of my friends who worked, spoke out, and voted for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in the January 5 run-off --- we have passed major Covid relief for our hurting nation. If Georgia had failed to elect these men this would NOT have happened. More than two-thirds of Americans approve of our president's efforts to defeat Covid and to ease the burdens of Americans who are hurting financially because of the pandemic. Take away either of these good men and the relief package fails. Halleujah! Please remember this when Senator Warnock is up for a full term next year. He kept his promise.
Fred Noye
And the country collapsed!
Chris Goss
Fred, can you explain?
Francis Ranwez
Chris Goss Oh, you are an optimist to ask that.
Chris Goss Francis Yiss
Francis Ranwez I looked at his page and I think Fred may be a confederate spy who hasn't gotten the word yet. They had drunk the cool aid then, and it took some 16 months after Appomattox before a final peace was signed. They lost then, and as everybody knows, they really lost in 2016 except for Russian help, and of course they lost yet again in 2020 to a fellow they call senile and old. Of course, having your head handed to you by a senile old man doesn't speak well for their cognitively challenged leader. And, of course, the Great Revelation or whatever Ms Green and her QAnon cohorts called the second coming of Trumps escorted by Proud Boy Angels didn't pan out on March 5 either. That leaves me with a good stock of Pop Corn and Beer that I didn't get to use. Oh well. Actually looking at the history of the guy who would be King, the only thing he really excelled at was losing. Big time. Right Fred Noye?
Fred Noye Francis Ranwez buckle up Butter cup. The ride has just begun and it isn't going to be pretty.
Francis Ranwez
Fred Noye amazing repartee.
Bless you sonny boy.
Fred Noye
Francis Ranwez thank you.
Steven Savage I understand. I'm not a Republican anymore. I believe the nation make the right choice this time. That invasion on our Capitol was just to much.
Once again some anonymous Secret Santa has left me a present on the front porch. Y'all know I've been collecting political items since 1964. Today Sheila found this beautiful button in an unmarked envelope on the porch. I love it! "Copyright Peter Loose" is printed on the curl. Thank you!
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Terrell Shaw
Well, now I still don't know who this was... Buddy Childers? You?
Ruth Demeter
Jeff Adair I knew Terrell would love these 
. Thanks for your help!
Y'all know I collect political items. My earliest items were from my work in the 1964 presidential campaign and the 1966 gubernatorial campaign. I first joined the American Political Items Collectors group in the 1970s. I'm a cheapskate so the few relatively valuable pins I have kinda fell into my lap in one way or another. But I have hundreds of pins dating from an 1840 William Henry Harrison metal "log cabin" clothing button (pretty common) to the Joe Biden buttons I added today.
I have collected American political items since I was a high school kid (the 1964 race). My mail today brought these buttons I ordered from the Biden campaign. More are on the way. My duplicates from this group or the group in my cover picture are available for trade for other 2020 buttons for Joe or other Democratic candidates.
Kyle Doegg
Just ordered some stickers, a koozie, and the rainbow button tonight!
David Matheny
Need to have some "BYEDON" stickers.
Mason St. Clair
I’ll message you later today about a trade dealing with the enamel pin.
Terrell Shaw
Unfortunately, Mason, I only have one of the lapel pins and I actually wear it on my collar. I have duplicates of all the other Biden pins.
Mason St. Clair
Terrell Shaw that’s ok! Make sure you wear it proudly and often!
Terrell Shaw
Absolutely... wearing it at a storytelling festival this weekend.
Early voting has started here in Georgia.
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| Somehow in the fall of '68 our YD group managed to pay a sign painter to do up this indoor sign for the HQ -- I suppose on butcher paper. It is about sixteen feet long and three feet wide. It spanned one whole wall of the HQ which we rented on Main Street in the village of Wilmore. |
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| Somewhere I have an old b&w photo of some of us in the HQ with this sign behind us. |
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| It was unfolded and spread -- for the first time in fifty years -- in my front hall last night so I could climb the stairs ant take these pictures. |
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| In the Spring of '68, several of us from Asbury, abetted by our history professor Ms. Ciccorella and her daughter, Pat, made our way to Louisville and across the Ohio River to New Albany, Indiana to campaign for Robert Kennedy. |
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| One of our duties in New Albany was to make signs for supporters to hold up when Bobby & Ethel came to town. |
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| These are some of the signs I made and that we used when we met the Kennedys at the Louisville airport. |
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| I didn't use these signs though. Somehow I managed to be chosen to don a ridiculous sash and styrofoam hat emblazoned with Kennedy bling and stand in the airport receiving line as the token college kid among the bigwigs. |
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| I wish I had managed to save more of the official campaign stuff rather than these silly signs! |
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| Still it was a thrill to shake the hands of our next president (as I believed) and his wife. |
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| At the time I was disappointed that Kennedy had such a limp handshake (Ethel's was very firm!) -- I have since heard that major presidential candidates end up with very sore hands pretty quickly, so I have tried to give him a little break on that score. David Matheny You met Bobby K.??
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| Kennedy won the Indiana primary, but only a month later the dream was shattered by an assassin's bullet. |
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| This is one of the official posters I saved from the Indiana campaign. |
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| Eleven of the items in this shadow box are from my own campaigning in 1968. The matchbook is from the dinner I attended for the campaign in Louisville -- so that preserves the date as September 20, 1968. |
And we almost came back to win that year ... what a blessing for America it would have been to elect this good man and avoid the Nixon scandals. Even George Will admits that Nixon committed treason to be elected that year, meddling in the Vietnam peace negotiations to postpone a settlement till after the election. Nixon was the crookedest president ever... until January 20, 2017.
My friend Wendy Davis is the niece of our Congressman from the sixties and seventies, John Davis. As a young teacher I was pleased to be introduced to Congressman Davis at the RNT news room where Sheila was working as a reporter at the time. I remember being impressed that he recited a poem to us; I don’t remember the poem or how it was appropriate to the conversation but it was. This thimble and a small campaign button are the only items in my collection from his races.
Comments
Mary Nisbet Asbury
Cool!
Lynne Crothers Williams
My husband was Congressman Davis's press secretary in the late sixties.
Wendy Davis
How fun is this?!?
Pam Duggan
Really neat campaign mementos! Much more memorable than a campaign button!!!
Donald Murdock
My family met John Davis in his office in DC when I was a kid. He knew my grandpa, “Judge Edwards” (founder of RNT). He took us via the underground train to the congressional cafeteria (as I recall...vague memories). Simpler times. Cool thimble.
Wendy Davis
Donald, they still have that little train
George Barton
He was my first cousin, once removed.
I enjoy collecting presidential mementos of all American political stripes. (For any friends who have stray political items that need a good home, I'm here for you!)
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| In the Spring of '68, several of us from Asbury, abetted by our history professor Ms. Ciccorella and her daughter, Pat, made our way to Louisville and across the Ohio River to New Albany, Indiana to campaign for Robert Kennedy. It was quite an experience for this rather sheltered Georgia preacher's kid from an arch-conservative "holiness" college. |
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| One of our duties in New Albany was to make signs for supporters to hold up when Bobby & Ethel came to town. |
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| These are some of the signs I made and that we used when we met the Kennedys at the Louisville airport. |
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| I didn't use these signs though. Somehow I managed to be chosen to don a ridiculous sash and styrofoam hat emblazoned with Kennedy bling and stand in the airport receiving line as the token college kid among the bigwigs. |
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| I wish I had managed to save more of the official campaign stuff rather than these silly signs! |
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| Still it was a thrill to shake the hands of our next president (as I believed) and his wife. |
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| At the time I was disappointed that Kennedy had such a limp handshake (Ethel's was very firm!) -- I have since heard that major presidential candidates end up with very sore hands pretty quickly, so I have tried to give him a little break on that score. David Matheny You met Bobby K.??
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| Kennedy won the Indiana primary, but only a month later the dream was shattered by an assassin's bullet. |
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| This is one of the official posters I saved from the Indiana campaign |
