RARE CLINTON INAUGURAL FOR CELEBRITY TRAIN FROM NYC TO DC.
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Auction #202 - Part I
Item numbers 1 through 1553 in auction 202
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Item Description
This rare 3.5" button with 6" ribbon is the only example found in the Marshall Levin Collection. Button reads "Good Housekeeping 1993 Presidential Inaugural Train/N.Y./D.C./FDR Sixtieth-1933-1993/January 17, 1993." Our photo may show a couple of small marks but that was surface dirt now removed and this piece is essentially Mint. A New York Times article from the following day has complete story on this event whose participants received this badge. We will quote the first two paragraphs of the article which holds a great deal of additional information. The piece was titled "The Inauguration: A Smooth Ride; Train Builds Momentum For 60 Years" with text "In a throwback to an era when it was de rigueur to ride the rails to Washington for a swearing-in of a President, a private train dubbed the "Broadway Special" rolled into Washington today from New York City in an inaugural procession unlike any before, bringing an entourage that included a celebrity sex therapist, a rope-twirling cowboy and the descendants of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. "As much planning has gone into this as D-Day," said Barry Landau, organizer of the train trip and owner of a Manhattan-based public relation office that specializes in planning celebrity-studded events." The basic concept was that this trip on the Amtrak line retraced the route FDR took 60 years earlier making stops at Newark, Trenton, Phila., Wilmington and Baltimore. In addition to Roosevelt's four grandchildren, those on the trip included New York Mayor David Dinkins, mayors of Baltimore and Wilmington, actor Mickey Rooney, lasso expert and actor Vince Bruce, sex therapist Dr. Ruth, TV host Dick Cavett and several other well known names. Good Housekeeping paid for the 5-car train and its two locomotives with the editor-in-chief John Mack Carter and staff distributing to the 250 guests issues of their magazine with Hillary Clinton on the cover plus copies of the First Lady's then famous chocolate chip cookie recipe. Extremely limited issue. Comes with Hake's COA.
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