With the shipment of type from my folks came the addition of some great campaign buttons from years past. Again, Casey was there to capture them as only she can. Here's the haul:
Some classics there, for sure. And some great typography. Though it's hard to beat the simplicity of "I Like Ike", I'm partial - for several reasons - to that amazing RFK button. Here's a close-up:
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself," Robert Kennedy said, "but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." About his brother, Ted Kennedy said, "My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." Right on.
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