From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan holds a telephone receiver attached to a telephone cord that spells "Debate line." The receiver at the other end of the line is labeled "Carter." From it comes,...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on June 7, 1999 with Terri Shaw (born 1940). Ms. Shaw graduated from Antioch College in Yellow springs, Ohio, in 1963, then went to work for the Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express before spending the summer in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 23, 1977 with Mr. Jimmy Swan. Swan was born in Cullman County, Alabama. He ran away from home when he was thirteen or fourteen and ended up in Wayne County, Mississippi. Swan sang in nightclubs and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and another Iranian man sit on the floor in front of a wall covered with tally marks. The wall is labeled "395th day," and the second man holds a...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan carries a large cake on a platter in one hand as he walks on the descending line of a graph. The graph line is labeled "The economy," and the cake is labeled "One...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground is a bomb decorated with an upside down American flag and labeled "Another hike in the debt ceiling." In the background, Ronald Reagan and the Republican...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is turning his head left and right so fast he appears to have two faces. The U.S. Capitol dome is seen over one shoulder. Looking to the left, Reagan is saying, "Grant tax...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, wearing a train engineer's cap, drives a long train, the engine of which is labeled "Recession line." George H. W. Bush, also wearing an engineer's cap, is in the engine...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan, dressed as a colonial, is labeled "U.S. deficit" on his vest. He stands beside a sign that reads, "Colonial Williamsburg welcomes 7-nation economic summit," and the...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. "Tip" O'Neill, dressed as a baseball player and labeled "Demos," stands on the pitcher's mound in an otherwise empty field. He watches as a baseball sails over his head toward the back...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is dining with a woman labeled "Congress." They are seated on opposite sides of the table, and the table place card reads "The Spratts." A waiter brings a covered...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale is at a podium on a platform or stage in front of a curtain with a banner that reads, "Campaign 84." Mondale says, "I say Ronald Reagan is running away from the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Outgoing president Jimmy Carter and incoming president Ronald Reagan are bowing to each other outside a stone/brick building with a door labeled "Presidential decisions." Carter...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Tip O'Neill, labeled "Congress," stands in front of a military tank being driven by Ronald Reagan. The tank's gun is labeled "18-months limit in Lebanon." O'Neill, with the U.S....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled "Security's Clark" [William P. Clark] stands in front of Ronald Reagan's desk holding a large book titled, "Crash course in world affairs." Reagan says, "I've got...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig are in an office. On the desk is a paper with "New U.S. Central America-Caribbean policy." Both men are looking at...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A nervous Ronald Reagan is being squeezed between a rock labeled "Budget deficit" and a military tank with the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. Reagan is using a handsaw...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan sits at his desk with a worried look on his face. On his desk are two large books, labeled "Tax cuts" and "Budget cuts," a telephone, and papers labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan works at a desk, writing on papers. Other papers are scattered on the floor around him. On either side of the desk are large charts on easels. One is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is sitting at a desk with a sign on it that reads, "Installment tax cuts." A large man labeled "Growing deficits" sits in a chair beside the desk and says to...
