HONORING AND CELEBRATING FAMOUS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN POSTERS

Politicians come and go, but the one thing  stands the test of time. Their campaign posters.

In many cases, the intent of campaign posters is to help define a politician's legacy. However, the legacy is usually  It is in that spirit that Peabody pays homage to the artists and the posters they created to inspire the message and carve the legacy of their political leaders.
(swipe on the poster side to side to compare the original to our tribute.)

Interesting Fact
JFK's secret service code name was "Lancer." Appropriate since  his administration was often compared to Camelot.

Interesting Fact
In 1968, Jackson was part of Martin Luther King, Jr’s inner circle. They were together when he was assassinated and was the last person to talk to King.

Interesting Fact
Shortly after removing his lucky carnation from his lapel to give to a little girl, he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and died.

Interesting Fact
When Ronald Reagan was shot by an assassin in 1981, he joked "I forgot to duck".

Interesting Fact
At his peak weight of 340 pounds, Taft decided to go on a diet after getting stuck in a bathtub.

Interesting Fact
This poster was designed by New York creative firm Tandem and was likely displayed at the bar AOC was working as a bartender while running for Congress.

Interesting Fact
Nixon played many musical instruments without having to learn how to read music. Which begs the question, did he learn the songs by listening to tapes?

Interesting Fact
As a kid, Humphrey earned a pharmacist's license and spent seven years employed at his family's drugstore before catching political bug.

Interesting Fact
Nixon's Checkers speech was meant as a jab at FDR’s famous Fala speech. Years later, Nixon was still upset that it was called the Checkers speech and people mostly remembered the reference to his pet dog.

Interesting Fact
This poster designed by Shepard Fairey became so iconic and cool, that it's no wonder the biggest scandal Obama faced in his administration was that he wore a tan suit at the White House.

Interesting Fact
According to his mother, Ethel, RFK had to repeat the third grade after flunking out.

Interesting Fact:
This Ben Shahn poster cemented McCarthy’s legacy as the Senate dove. However, McCarthy was also known as a published poet. In 1968 he remarked, "If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency."

Interesting Fact
Carter claimed to have spotted a UFO in 1969, but he did not file a report until four years after.

Interesting Fact
A year after joining the GOP, NY businessman Wendell Willkie ran against FDR as the rumpled “man of the people” with no political experience, but voters loved him.

Interesting Fact
FDR appointed Frances Perkins, the first women to serve in the cabinet, as the new Secretary of Labor. She was an architect of the New Deal.

Interesting Fact
Teddy Roosevelt was blind in his left eye due to an injury in a boxing match.