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West Bloomfield High School
students get a close-up look at
mementos of presidential campaigns.

DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer

From left. Richard Nixon campaign
but-ton.

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John F Kennedy campaign button.

newspaper articles, bumper stickers, posters, fliers and
other memorabilia from presidential campaigns.
Wallach estimates his collection, dating from 1896 to
n the 1940 presidential campaign, Republican
the present, includes about 500 items.
Wendell Wilkie ordered 30 million campaign but-
"The nice thing about them is they tell a story," he
tons in his bid to defeat three-term President
says. "Look at them and you see the style, the pictures
Franklin Roosevelt.
and the personalities that
al fiV VA V
He lost anyway.
caught people's imaginations
Today, some of these pins
in times past. Even the type-
At, 9
belong to Larry Wallach of
face — you can look at these
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Farmington Hills. He displayed
and get a general idea of
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them Oct. 6 in the West
when they came from."
AI L Farmington Hills man shares his
Bloomfield High School
Wallach, whose day job is
Media Center, along with a
associate
director of major
campaign collection with the community
few hundred other buttons,
gifts and government rela-

Adam Littman, a 1 Oth-grader from
West Bloomfielth looks at Larry
Wallach's 'Kennedy for President"
pamphlet.

Larry Wallach speaks to West
Bloomfield High school students about
his presidential memorabilia.

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