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An anti-Nixon button stating the obvious. (source)
Luka sent me this really odd picture of a button. It belongs to a larger collection of Watergate-era, anti-Nixon buttons that can be seen in toto here.
I don’t quite get it; Luka’s guess is that it was meant for the local Slovenian community, who were presumably relieved that an abomination like Nixon had Welsh ancestors and not Slovenian ones. But what an odd thing to put on a button.
And apparently it doesn’t even come from Slovene-heavy Cleveland, but from Chicago. And apparently someone liked it enough to buy it already.
Hmm, I wonder if there’s a market for some “Warren G. Harding wasn’t Slovenian!” buttons. Cause it’s true. He wasn’t.
(Thanks Luka!)
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I think that historical ranking is a bit unfair and biased. After all Harding at least did no harm - and he cut taxes! In my personal rankings he is up there among the best American presidents with Coolidge (”Lack of interest in exerting executive or federal power”), Cleveland, van Buren and Jefferson. In fact it looks like Harding was probably the last good American president.
Michael,
You got me interested in which other Americans were of Slovenian origin. A quickie search turned up this very short list. Like most immigrants, the Slovenians were quite well represented in the Armed Forces. One guy caught my eye. Charles Kuralt. You probably remember him from Sunday Morning tv. If Walter Cronkite was Uncle Wally to most of us, then Kuralt was his shyer brother….
..or so I thought. Check out
this short bio, specifically the shadow family item toward the end. Ah those Slovenians! Going forth and propogating, even in the NEw World.
I have seen Governor Voinovich’s name on lists of Serbian Americans as well so what he claims for himself would interest me. I’ll have to check into it.
@Darko, did you know that Slovenia itself has a rather low birthrate for a Balkans nation? The joke was that the birthrate always went up when the migrant workers from BiH showed up! The good breeders must have all gone to America!
No WAY Nixon couold have been Slovenian, and I never suspected Welsh either. He was always listed among American presidents of Irish descent.
To continue, something went wrong I wanted to further comment on Nixon’s family in Ireland, they were Irish Quakers and the Quakers had a good reputation in Ireland for their relief work in the Famine times. They did not try to take advantage of their neighbor’s hunger to try to convert them. Other Protestant groups did that and such converts were called ‘Soupers’ and the Irish surname ‘Soper’ comes from that.
I actually wouldn’t minde if he had in fact been Slovenian. Not that I am a fan of his, but it would be nice if we Slovenians had a really famous person(besides Slavoj Zizek and Melania Knauss, I mean). As a curiosity: I’ve read on Wikipedia that Eisenhower was considering choosing Frank Lausche (then Governor of Ohio) as his running mate for the 1952 elections - now Lausche in fact was Slovenian, so if Eisenhower had indeed chosen him insteaed of Nixon, we would have had a Slovenian vice-president (and no Quaker as president).
By the way: has anybody seen Oliver Stone’s “Nixon”? So far I’m the only one I know that that thinks it’s great (the movie, I mean).
I saw it, and thought it was actually quite good as well. Thoug I actually find Nixon to be an underrated president. The movie’s negative reception was, I think, in part due to the usual ritual denunciation afforded to any dramatic depiction of a prominent conservative by a non-conservative. That this one had Stone directing made it red meat, but the same thing happened to the Reagan biopic and authorised biography, for example.
Voinovich has both Slovenian and Serbian ancestors - and some other as well I guess.