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[PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS]

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[PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>[PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFULS] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Collection of 15 autographs from 13 prominent Presidential or Vice Presidential hopefuls. TLsS, 1p each, mostly 4to, Washington, DC, 1967-82. Many on Senate letterhead. Plus four b/w SPs/ISPs. Letters are addressed to collector Selwyn Gamble regarding his collection and extending appreciation for holiday greetings, etc. Candidates include Republican Senator from AZ </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>Barry Goldwater</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1909-1998) who transmits a signed bow tie and two campaign buttons; Republican Senator </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>Bob Dole</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b.1923); Vice President under Lyndon Johnson, </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>Hubert H. Humphrey</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1911-1978); anti-Vietnam Democratic candidate </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>George McGovern</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b. 1922); thrice defeated Independent candidate and avowed anti-segregationist </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>George C. Wallace</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1919-1998); Democrat </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>Thomas F. Eagleton</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b. 1929) who ran on McGovern ticket; Republican nominee </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>George Romney</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1907-1995), also with SP, b/w, 3½"x5"; Republican </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>Margaret Chase Smith</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1897-1995), the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency by either of the two major parties; Republican candidate in 1948 </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>Strom Thurmond</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b. 1902); Republican grandson of President William Taft Robert Taft Jr. (1917-1993), who also encloses a tie he had worn. Also present is an SP, b/w, 8"x10" half length seated portrait </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>of Eugene McCarthy</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b. 1916); an ISP, b/w, 8"x10" candid bust portrait of Democrat </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform:uppercase'>Gary Hart</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (b. 1936) and lastly an SP, b/w, 8"x10" candid bust portrait of Democrat </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;text-transform: uppercase'>Paul Tsongas</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> (1941-1997). All neatly contained in a three-ring binder. Overall VG.</span></p>