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Campaign buttons at the FDR Library N. of Poughkeepsie. The top row were put out by the pro-FDR forces; the bottom by the anti-. (All of them are in relation to FDR's 1944 election to a third term, over Wendell Willkie.) Apparently, bashing the wives of gubernatorial / presidential candidates has been a long New York tradition and continues in fine form today.