(Tim, w/thanks to Dave) Here's an interesting page displaying all the presidential campaign logos from the past forty-eight years. Compare how Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Ron Paul punctuated their abbreviation for the year. A couple other personal notes...
DUKAKIS 1988:
The last year I was in seminary, the man I worked
for, Josiah Spaulding, died suddenly of a heart attack. He and his
wife, Helen, were Boston Brahmins.
At the time of Mr. Spaulding's death, he was chairman of Massachusetts
Rehabilitation Hospital (since renamed Spaulding Rehabilitation
Hospital) and Mrs. Spaulding was President of the New England (Boston)
Aquarium and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees of Georgetown University. Following the funeral service, an Irish wake was held out on
Smith's Point at the Spaulding's estate where I worked, and I was
responsible to park the cars. Then, after everyone arrived, I was to
tend bar. One of the first guests to arrive was the Governor of
Massachusetts, Michael Dukakis. His chauffeur parked the car in such a
way that it wasted about ten other parking spots. We were expecting
several hundred people so, as the Governor walked away from his car, I
asked his chaueffer if I could have the keys to move the car. He said
"No."
Explaining how many were coming and that I needed to move their car back to the corner of the gravel in front of the garage, I asked for the keys again. Governor Dukakis smiled at me and told the chauffeur, "Give him the keys." I thanked him.
NIXON/LODGE 1960:
At the same time, our brother, Nathan, and his
wife, Sandy, were hired to live in another Boston Brahmin's home,
helping the man of the house and his wife in the last days of his life.
(David, Nathan, and I were all at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
at the time.)
If you look at the bottom right corner of all the logos, you'll see the one from the Nixon/Lodge campaign in 1960. It was that man, Henry Cabot Lodge, Nathan and Sandy lived with and cared for.
