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Political Cartoons

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He'll come over and eat your cookies,
but then he'll go back and draw a cartoon
giving you h___ the next day.

Lyndon Baines Johnson
on Political Cartoonist Herb Block

People say “a picture is worth a thousand words.” But when it comes to politics, it’s probably more accurate to say a picture is better than any words.

Political cartoons have jabbed at national leaders for hundreds of years. Using presidential phrases like “I am not a crook” or “I did not have sex with that woman,” cartoonists ridicule the obvious disparities between words and conduct. Each cartoon implicitly asks its subject, “How stupid do you really think people are?!”

Some of the most famous political cartoons are maintained by national archives. Let’s take a look at the best of Herb Block as profiled by the Library of Congress.

 

Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.

 

 

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