During the 1940 presidential campaign FDR’s critics charged that he would drag the nation into war if reelected. On September 6, 1940, in the midst of the campaign, Roosevelt signed the Selective Training and Service Act, which authorized the first peacetime military draft in American history.
Anti-Roosevelt Campaign Button
- ca. 1940
Description
Transcript
To President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Commander in Chief
of Our Armed Forces
AMERICA’S
SCHOOL CHILDREN
are proud
to present
13,500 PLANES
44,700 JEEPS
and other war equipment to the value of
$510,000,000
through the purchase of War Bonds during the school year ending June 1944.
ENGRAVED ON A FRAGMENT OF THE PROPELLER OF A JAPANESE PLANE SHOT DOWN BY A U.S. PILOT.
This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-MUSEUM: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection.
Full Citation: MO 1975.137.15; Anti-Roosevelt Campaign Button; ca. 1940; Campaign Memorabilia, 1941 – 2020; Collection FDR-MUSEUM: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Museum Collection,; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/anti-roosevelt-campaign-button/, April 4, 2026]
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