Winnie…….
The slogan was used in early Senate campaigns in Texas. No need to differentiate a living Senate candidate from a long dead VP/President of the 1800s from Tennessee.
No, I don’t wear them, they are part of a collection of 20th century US political items I put together for a political science class in college some 45 years ago or so.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson were all people who used their full names in everyday life (many Gentiles honor the mother’s family by including the name as a middle name). These names took too much space in newspapers, on letterheads, advertising, etc. Ink and paper cost money, so Initials were used. Dwight David Eisenhower’s initials DDE were too close to the now banned pesticide DDT, especially for an Army general, so he used his child nickname IKE in politics.
Carter and Clinton used diminutives of their first names: Jimmy and Bill. Reagan couldn’t use initials, because RR is the abbreviation for RailRoad,