It was Reagan first." Kengor sorted through his desk of old mementos to try and find some old "Make America Great Again" campaign buttons. "But I have a button that I keep on my desk that says it ...

(Getty) Close-up of pinback button with text reading “Reagan, Let’s Make America Great Again,” for Ronald Reagan’s 1980 Presidential election campaign, September 26, 2019. (Photo by Smith ...

He once signed a Reagan campaign button. In 2019, Patterson participated in a panel talk entitled, “Remembering Ronald Reagan” at the Cherry Blossom festival in the rural Ozark city of Marshfield.

Richard Schweiker, a liberal Republican from Pennsylvania. The Reagan campaign hoped the move would help win delegates from the state, make him more attractive to liberals and moderates at the ...