May 8 1964 LIFE Magazine Vice Presidential Sweepstakes Johnson Politics Vintage For Sale

This is the May 8, 1964 issue of LIFE magazine, Volume 56 Number 19, featuring the cover story "Vice-Presidential Sweepstakes: President Johnson Has a Grab-Bag of Running Mates," illustrated with campaign-style buttons pairing LBJ with potential 1964 running mates including Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, and Sargent the issue includes coverage of Alabama Governor George Wallace's campaign against civil rights legislation, a feature on the Kennedy memorial postage stamp and Elaine de Kooning's JFK portrait commission, Part 4 of a World War One history series, the first captive-born panda in Peking, and LIFE's Twenty-one Award Winners feature honoring its photographers and writers for 1963. Period advertisements include Seagram's Seven Crown and 7Up, a Pontiac Bonneville, and a Coca-Cola New York World's Fair sweepstakes is good, clean, with light wear consistent with age. A subscriber mailing label is present on the lower front strong piece of 1964 election-year political history for collectors of Robert Kennedy and LBJ-era material, JFK memorial and commemorative history, and vintage LIFE magazine magazine 1964 · Vice Presidential Sweepstakes · Robert Kennedy RFK · LBJ Lyndon Johnson · 1964 election history · Kennedy memorial stamp · George Wallace civil rights · vintage LIFE magazine · Cold War era politics · mid century advertising