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Yakima Herald-Republic | March 12, 2008| | Copyright

YAKIMA -- Before political candidates had their own MySpace and Facebook pages or even bumper stickers, they had buttons.

Ken Gustafson was just a kid in those days and not too interested in politics. But political buttons were another matter. He'd pick them up at places like booths at state and county fairs.

"I didn't know one from the other, and I didn't care," says Gustafson, who picked up about 100 presidential campaign buttons, some of them more than once.

Today, he has multiples of several lapel pins, some of which date back more than 70 years.

There's a few Alf Landon-for-president ...

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