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| - Staples began selling "That was easy!" buttons, a battery-powered electronic device with no function other than to deliver the corporate slogan when the button was pressed. The reason anyone would buy a button with which to help advertise Staples® is probably related to the reason people buy sweatshirts to help advertise Nike,® Old Navy,® or the Dallas Cowboys.® The squeak, incidentally, was itself a marketing slogan — of the 1940 Presidential campaign of Wendell Wilkie. Though the squeak was a storybook failure of marketing, most Americans preferred it to Wilkie's other slogan, "One World."
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| - Staples began selling "That was easy!" buttons, a battery-powered electronic device with no function other than to deliver the corporate slogan when the button was pressed. The reason anyone would buy a button with which to help advertise Staples® is probably related to the reason people buy sweatshirts to help advertise Nike,® Old Navy,® or the Dallas Cowboys.® It is perhaps a commentary on the present time that such a fine piece of precision technology could be manufactured with no purpose other than to deliver a slogan. However, Grandfather's generation gave us the rubber duck, equally pretty, equally useless, and incapable of using words at all but merely emitting a squeak at tub-side. The squeak, incidentally, was itself a marketing slogan — of the 1940 Presidential campaign of Wendell Wilkie. Though the squeak was a storybook failure of marketing, most Americans preferred it to Wilkie's other slogan, "One World."
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