"Romney" Bumper Sticker, 1968

Michigan's governor, George Romney, the one-time chairman and president of American Motors Corporation, made a bid for the Republican Party's Presidential nomination in 1968. The highly principled, moderate Republican--who, in 1964, refused to back the conservative Republican nominee--trailed in the polls throughout 1967, slipping dramatically after comments about the war in Vietnam. Romney withdrew his candidacy before the first primaries.