Alone I Didn't Do It

Punch - 1908

Mr Taft (Breathless But Triumpahnt) "Thank You Teddy

"It's like the gun lobby guys say -- Laws interfere wit' us sportsmen" 1965

Have a care, sir - March 4, 1954

Throughout his political career, Dwight Eisenhower refused to take a public stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's aggressive anti-communist campaign. Eisenhower even struck from a 1952 campaign speech in Wisconsin a defense of his mentor, George C. Marshall, a McCarthy target. Half a dozen Republican senators, including Ralph Flanders, joined Margaret Chase Smith in a "declaration of conscience" against McCarthy. Eisenhower, however, continued to speak of "justice and fair play" in fighting communism, and it was a long time before they prevailed.

Ron Moody, No Vacancy - 1969

How Not To Elect A President, 1969
Neon sign advertizing no vacancy at the White House

I Am Not A Crook - May 24, 1974

Nixon hanging between the tapes

The Law Makers - Jacob Burck

Jacob Burck 1933

Depicts JP Morgan making paper dolls out of Congress. The same actors are in play 80 years latter.

The Freedom of the Press

Art Young 1912

The Freedom of the Press, The Masses by Art Young from 1912-1918

Chief—The Backswing—Look Out—

10/17/1973

Events in the Watergate crisis moved so rapidly and dramatically on the weekend of October 19–21 that Herblock drew two cartoons to cover them. Tape recordings made in the Oval Office were the object of a jurisdictional struggle involving Congress, Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the White House. The tapes might determine if President Nixon was complicit in the 1972 break-in of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex, and whether he had interfered with the FBI’s investigation of this crime. Nixon argued that the tapes were protected by executive privilege and national security; the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected his claims but preferred that the parties reach an accommodation.

This cartoon reflects the nation’s somber mood after the “Saturday-night massacre,” with the “backswing” heading toward Nixon himself, as newspaper headlines screamed “pressure for impeachment mounting.”

Fire - June 17, 1949

By 1949, the Soviets had expanded their control to cover most of Eastern Europe, and it appeared that China would soon fall to the communists as well. "The fear-filled forties and fifties were a dark period when the spread of communism abroad increased anxieties and frustration at home," wrote Herb Block. In their zeal to stamp out all signs of subversion in the United States

Fear is a Constant

reform is a constant

If not for the big hats and puffy dresses it could have been writen today. From Punch in 1866

Women gathered around a new born baby labeled reform asking “do you think he will make it”