Ike Socks
Description: 1952 brochure urging Californians to get out the vote for the Republican Party in both national and local elections. The brochure featuring GOP candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon , California's Republican ticket for U. S. Congress and California State Legislature.
Description: A funny take on the 'I LIKE IKE' Campaign slogan used furing Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign of 1952. It was one of the most successful slogans in American political history. The slogan first appeared as "They Like Ike" in Irving Berlin's musical, "Call Me Madam," in 1950. Market research revealed that American felt comfortable with and trusted Eisenhower and the slogan stuck. At the time, cigarettes symbolized glamour and sophistication.
Description: The 1952 Republican National Convention was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois from July 7 to July 11, 1952, and nominated the popular general and war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, nicknamed "Ike," for president and the anti-communist crusading Senator from California, Richard M. Nixon, for vice president. The Republican platform pledged to end the unpopular war in Korea, to fire all "the loafers, incompetents and unnecessary employees" at the State Department, condemned the Roosevelt and Truman administrations' economic policies, supported retention of the Taft-Hartley Act, opposed "discrimination against race, religion or national origin", supported "Federal action toward the eliminatio...
Description: Exercise your right to vote during the midterm, primary and presidential election. Red white and blue American flag inspired retro, throwback design. Celebrate US history, with this original, classic campaign tee. Gift for history teachers, professors, and college students that love President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower and 1950's politics. Educational shirt for fans of politics, historians and those that miss the good old days. Democrats and Republicans.
