One of the oldest and most popular ways to express political pride is to wear it right on your body, in the form of a campaign button ... the president” and George Washington’s initials ...

The use of campaign buttons for candidates and slogans dates all the way back to our first President, George Washington. Washington's supporters wore a brass clothing button. The next evolution in ...

Vlk has two inaugural pins for George Washington, as well as a McKinley button from 1896, the first presidential campaign to use buttons as we know them today. From this year`s campaign ...

Campaign buttons, not so much ... “Buttons date back to George Washington’s first inauguration in 1789. These were actual clothing buttons and fasteners, where function was as important ...

It's the nation's first president, George Washington ... with voters on the campaign trail. But they are purely modern tactics that weren't even thought of during Washington's time, say historians ...

CHRIS WILLMAN: Campaign music really goes back to George Washington's campaign, with what might be called parody songs, where it's adapting a song of the day and adding lyrics about that candidate.