Political Cartoons
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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.
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