Outside the Beltway

FDR ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ Button

James Joyner · Sunday, March 7, 2004 · 2 comments

With a reader assist, Steven Taylor has solved the controversy over the FDR button from this morning.

It is indeed genuine, not a PhotoShop forgery.

FILED UNDER: 2004 Election, Franklin Roosevelt, Steven Taylor

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Comments

Steven says:

Monday, 8 March 2004 at 09:02

Now the legitimate question has emerged as to whether it is an actual campaogn button from 1944.
Brian A. says:

Monday, 8 March 2004 at 19:46

Funny, it doesn’t appear among these other FDR campaign buttons. I guess the vendor just forgot to put it up.