Celluloid type; black and white photograph of Walter Mondale; black outline of the State of Iowa; date, "November 3, 1979", and union "bug" below photograph; white printed slogan on green background, "V.P. WALTER MONDALE JEFFERSON-JACKSON DAY"; hollow back; pin back. This pin is for Iowans in support of Mondale and Carter. Jefferson-Jackson Day is an annual democratic fundraising dinner named after Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. These dinners are held during presidential campaigns as a way to help candidates get a leg up and network. Though the rest of the rest of the country holds this day the spring to align with the Republican dinners, Iowa holds their dinner in November so that it precedes the caucuses. Carter and Mondale were running for a second term in their presidency though due to the Olympic Boycott and the Iran hostage crisis (among other factors), they lost their seat to Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
