From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Supreme Court Associate Justice Abe Fortas is running on a long trail that goes back and forth across the cartoon. The trail is labeled, "Road toward Supreme Court Chief Justice...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by by Eddie Germano. Vice President Hubert Humphrey's face is seen speaking as the trumpet of an old-style (Victrola) phonograph player. President Lyndon Johnson is operating the player, which is...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Lyndon Johnson is escorting a man labeled "Businessmen" toward two doors, both closed. Johnson has twisted the arm of the man behind his back. The door on the left is labeled...
From the Dahl (Kathleen) Freedom Summer Collection. Letter from Rita Walker; includes mostly personal information, expresses frustration with social and economic conditions and with President Lyndon Johnson, mentions rioting in New York, Chicago...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Hubert H. Humphrey, dressed in cowboy attire, rides a snorting, bucking donkey, with its hind legs and hindquarters in the air. Beneath the donkey's suspended hind legs is a cloud...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Merle Cunnington. A donkey winks as he stands over a grave marked with a headstone that reads "Bobby Baker case." The donkey is wearing a blanket divided into three vertical sections. The first...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Four birds with human heads are sitting on a telephone pole or on the wires attached to the pole. The birds portray President Lyndon Johnson, French prime minister Charles de...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A dove has flown into a room through an open window and landed on a table. In its beak are an olive branch and a note that reads, "U.S. political parties want peace but stand on...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Lyndon Johnson and Leonid Brezhnev are in drag strip cars shaped like nuclear missiles. Each car has the atomic symbol near the nose of the rocket shape. The cars are side by...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Hubert Humphrey, driving a car labeled, "Humphrey's campaign image," stops at a gas station with a sign that reads, "L.B.J. Service." Lyndon Johnson is dressed as a gas pump...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. In front of the United Nations building, a hen labeled "UN Assembly" sits atop a gigantic egg labeled "Peaceful settlement of Vietnam War." U.N. Secretary General U Thant and U.S....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. This cartoon has two scenes, placed side by side. On the left, Ho Chi Minh wears a parachute and is blasted into the sky through a cloud of smoke labeled "U.S. bombing." On the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. The cartoon is divided in two parts. On the left side, an American soldier sits on one side of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) and reads a newspaper with the headline, "'68 election...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Vic Runtz. Armed soldiers guard the entrance to the site of the 1968 Democratic Convention, which is surrounded by chain link fence topped by barbed wire. The gate in the fence is labeled,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by John Collins. Five of six panels show world leaders reading newspaper headlines of Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968. Canada's Lester B. Pearson says, "Those Americans!...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson is lying in bed awake counting sheep which are jumping a fence. The sheep are labeled "Shriver, Humphrey, Kennedy, etc."
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. President Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey stand in the Oval Office (curved floor), with draperies, candelabra, and portrait on the wall. Humphrey is portrayed as a young boy,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eddie Germano. The earth is personified with a human face. A bandaged area is labeled "Tensions," and wounded areas are labeled, "Riots; Disagreement on nuclear disarmament; Vietnam; Ambitious...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. An ostrich labeled "Baker investigation" stands with its head in the sand under a hot sun. An elephant dressed in safari clothing and pith helmet is pulling a tail feather from the...