He worked as a cartoonist for the paper the Daily Post in the 1950's and 1960's. The cartoon depicts the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev and the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, arm wrestling. Weinberger drops money and contracts from his sleigh/rocket while wearing a toilet seat with a $640 price tag around this nexta reference to the 1985 discovery that the military paid $640 for airborne toilet-seat covers for C-5 cargo planes. In the 1960s, he lampooned Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson and became quite critical of Johnson. Acting Solicitor General Charles Fried filed a brief with the Supreme Court on July 15, asking that the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision be overturned. -President Gerald R. Ford, 1975 Using drawings or cartoons to comment on the actions of a president is a tradition nearly as old as the nation. In opposing corruption, suppression of rights and abuse of government office, the political cartoon has always served as a special prod -- a reminder to public servants that they ARE public servants. He Worked at the Los Angeles Times for Nearly 30 Years (front-page obituary, at his death), Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2010. Inflation: inflation is the sustained upward movement in the overall price level of goods and services in the economy. Published in the Washington Post (105) LC-USZ62-126876, About | Cartoon shared with permission from Herb Block Foundation. The $640 toilet seat collar on Weinberger became a Herb Block fixture after disclosures of Pentagon purchases of $435 hammers, $466 socket wrenches, $600 ashtrays and $2,043 wing nuts. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; He also won three Pulitzer Prizes for this work of poking fun at politicians duringa 50-year career. Throughout his career, Block lampooned figures such as Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon for their political beliefs and conduct while holding office. The cartoon has Johnson with his vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, riding a bomb similar to a scene from the. March 13, 1984. Congratulations To Our 2017 Reuben Award Winners The GoComics Team. The image that is selected for the analysis is from the pre-1856 epoch of US history, and it represents the imagination of the political and social life as it was imagined by artists. For the Vietnam thing, thats the one you could really get your teeth into. Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire" He sent over 500 ICMBs to Western Europe to protect NATO allies Between 2000 and 2008, a widespread deep loathing of George W. Bush now known as Bush Derangement Syndrome grew to such a fever pitch that it threatened to tear the country apart. He left it to Attorney General Meese to disclose the diversion of arms-sales funds to Nicaraguan contra rebels, a violation of an act of Congress. Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists