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1. LOCHER_220412_001.JPG: Herblock Looks at 1972: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons, Part II Within days of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon (1913–1994) disavowed participation in the scandal. That November, he won a landslide victory over Democratic candidate George McGovern, garnering sixty percent of the popular vote. As early as June 20, 1972, Herblock castigated President Nixon for his role in the Watergate break-in, and ultimately drew 140 cartoons focused on Watergate between the break-in and Nixon’s resignation on August 8, 1974. In 1973, Herblock shared a Pulitzer Prize with fellow Washington Post colleagues Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein for their 1972 Watergate coverage. Herblock also lifted his ink brush and pen to address issues of inflation, taxation, and the increase in violent crime that affected many people in the United States. An avowed independent, Herblock humorously addressed dysfunction in the Democratic Party as it attempted to find a candidate who could win against President Nixon. The cartoonist highlighted international issues, showing sympathy for Vietnamese refugees caught between the attacks from the North by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the resulting air bombings. These ten cartoons—with new drawings introduced into the exhibition every six months—have been selected from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division.
2. LOCHER_220412_006.JPG: THE UNSCHEDULED WITHDRAWALS Herblock reflected on the anguish and misery of refugees after North Vietnamese troops launched an Easter Offensive on South Vietnam in March 1972. By the end of April, the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) had pushed far enough into South Vietnam to send more than 350,000 refugees, which included South Vietnamese troops, scrambling southwards toward Huế. Although the Easter Offensive ultimately ended in a military stalemate as the South fought back, the refugees’ dislocation was not resolved. The Unscheduled Withdrawals, 1972. Published in the Washington Post, May 2, 1972.
3. LOCHER_220412_015.JPG: “WE WON'T LET ANYONE TORPEDO THE ANTI-INFLATION EFFORT” Herblock figuratively took President Richard Nixon’s declaration against AFL-CIO President George Meany that he “would not be permitted ‘to torpedo and sink’ the battle against inflation.” Meany and several labor leaders had abandoned Nixon’s Pay Board, established to fight inflation, arguing it favored business. More to Meany’s point, wage freezes set by the Pay Board damaged the working class, who initiated strikes for higher wages to offset inflation. Nixon’s modest success in controlling inflation ended when oil prices increased in 1973, upsetting his economic controls. “We Won't Let Anyone Torpedo the Anti-Inflation Effort,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, March 24, 1972.
4. LOCHER_220412_025.JPG: "HOW ARE THINGS AT THE JIGSAW PUZZLE FACTORY?" With President Richard Nixon guaranteed to receive the Republican Party nomination as presidential candidate in 1972, the elephant laughs at the Democratic Party donkey trying to patch together a leader capable of beating Nixon. At the beginning of April 1972, there were twenty-three Democrats vying for their party’s nomination. After George McGovern’s decisive win in Wisconsin on April 4, the candidate pool dwindled, although Edmund Muskie and George Wallace remained strong candidates. Ultimately, Richard Nixon resoundingly defeated George McGovern. “How Are Things At The Jigsaw Puzzle Factory?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, April 6, 1972.
5. LOCHER_220412_037.JPG: “SH! DON'T LAUGH TILL AFTER HE LEAVES” Although Nixon signed the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with the intention of benefiting the poor and increasing taxes on the rich, Herblock shows a common citizen left nearly penniless after paying his income taxes. In seeking to stimulate the economy, the Nixon administration had reduced corporate income taxes. Reflecting on this, Herblock depicted bloated businesspersons, labeled “Subsidized Industries,” “Corporate Farms,” and “Freeloading Big Businesses,” who stand and wait to receive government handouts and favors and hold back their laughter at the little man. “Sh! Don’t Laugh Till After He Leaves,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, April 14, 1972.
6. LOCHER_220412_055.JPG: “OUR STATISTICS SHOW THAT THINGS ARE BETTER THAN THEY WOULD BE IF THEY WERE WORSE THAN THEY ARE” Herblock graphically portrayed a victim of violent crime learning from the Nixon administration that actual crime rates were down. In election years, crime statistics enter campaign discourse, with Republicans and Democrats promising improvements in law enforcement. The Nixon administration had declared a “war on crime” in 1970 and, along with the 91st Congress, introduced major crime legislation. Nevertheless, in 1972, violent crimes had dramatically increased, even while crimes against property and the overall crime rate had fallen. “Our Statistics Show That Things Are Better Than They Would Be If They Were Worse Than They Are,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, September 29, 1972.
7. LOCHER_220412_064.JPG: "A cartoon does not tell everything about a subject. It's not supposed to. No written piece tells everything either. As far as words are concerned, there is no safety in numbers. The test of a written or drawn commentary is whether it gets at an essential truth." -- Herblock
8. LOCHER_220412_067.JPG: “WHO WOULD THINK OF DOING SUCH A THING?” Only three days after the June 17, 1972, arrest of five men at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., Herblock used the power of his ink brush and pencil to point a finger at President Richard Nixon, his re-election campaign manager John Mitchell, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Herblock’s Washington Post colleagues, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, determined that one man whom police apprehended at the scene, James W. McCord, Jr., received a salary from the Republican Party. Enlarge “Who Would Think of Doing Such a Thing?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, June 20, 1972.
9. LOCHER_220412_076.JPG: “REMEMBER, WE DON'T TALK UNTIL WE GET A LAWYER” Herblock used the White House barricade as a metaphor for the retreat and disavowal of participation in the Watergate break-in by President Nixon, his re-election campaign manager John Mitchell, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. As Kleindienst and Nixon quiver, Herblock portrays Mitchell as the leader barricading the door and giving orders. Herblock also selected newspaper headlines associated with Mitchell in his former role as attorney general and in his current role managing the Committee for the Re-election of the President. “Remember, We Don't Talk Until We Get A Lawyer,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, June 21, 1972.
10. LOCHER_220412_085.JPG: “COME BACK AFTER THE ELECTION—I'M KIND OF TIED UP RIGHT NOW” Portraying the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) thrown into disarray by the Watergate scandal, Herblock personified the organization as a man entangled in tape attempting to slam the door against a man representing the United States Court. The Nixon administration demanded that hearings in a civil lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee resulting from Watergate break-in be delayed until after the November presidential election. Not long after he called the lawsuit a “political stunt,” John Mitchell resigned as Nixon’s campaign manager. “Come Back After The Election—I'm Kind Of Tied Up Right Now,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, July 19, 1972
11. LOCHER_220412_097.JPG: “THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS ABROAD ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE ONES AT HOME” After Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men arrested in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, cashed a check made out to the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP), the General Accountability Office launched an investigation. Herblock drew two people leaving the White House with funds, but the title of his cartoon compares the secrecy behind campaign fundraising with the secret negotiations in Paris between national security advisor Henry Kissinger and a delegation from North Vietnam. “The Secret Negotiations Abroad Are Nothing Compared To the Ones at Home,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 3, 1972.
12. LOCHER_220412_103.JPG: “KEEP THE LID ON TILL AFTER THE ELECTION!” By offering the visual metaphor of election campaign scandals escaping like steam popping a pot lid, Herblock showed the great lengths Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and President Richard Nixon went to thwart investigations into the Watergate break-in. Just days after Nixon was nominated by the Republican Party in Miami Beach, Florida, the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced that the president’s re-election committee had violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. “Keep The Lid On Till After The Election!” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 29, 1972.
13. LOCHER_220916_001.JPG: Herblock Looks at 1972: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons, Part I Within days of the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 1972, President Richard Nixon (1913–1994) disavowed participation in the scandal. That November, he won a landslide victory over Democratic candidate George McGovern, garnering sixty percent of the popular vote. As early as June 20, 1972, Herblock castigated President Nixon for his role in the Watergate break-in, and ultimately drew 140 cartoons focused on Watergate between the break-in and Nixon’s resignation on August 8, 1974. In 1973, Herblock shared a Pulitzer Prize with fellow Washington Post colleagues Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein for their 1972 Watergate coverage. Herblock also lifted his ink brush and pen to address issues of inflation, taxation, and the increase in violent crime that affected many people in the United States. An avowed independent, Herblock humorously addressed dysfunction in the Democratic Party as it attempted to find a candidate who could win against President Nixon. The cartoonist highlighted international issues, showing sympathy for Vietnamese refugees caught between the attacks from the North by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the resulting air bombings. These ten cartoons—with new drawings introduced into the exhibition every six months—have been selected from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division.
14. LOCHER_220916_006.JPG: THE UNSCHEDULED WITHDRAWALS Herblock reflected on the anguish and misery of refugees after North Vietnamese troops launched an Easter Offensive on South Vietnam in March 1972. By the end of April, the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN, the regular army of North Vietnam) had pushed far enough into South Vietnam to send more than 350,000 refugees, which included South Vietnamese troops, scrambling southwards toward Huế. Although the Easter Offensive ultimately ended in a military stalemate as the South fought back, the refugees’ dislocation was not resolved. The Unscheduled Withdrawals, 1972. Published in the Washington Post, May 2, 1972.
15. LOCHER_220916_015.JPG: “WE WON'T LET ANYONE TORPEDO THE ANTI-INFLATION EFFORT” Herblock figuratively took President Richard Nixon’s declaration against AFL-CIO President George Meany that he “would not be permitted ‘to torpedo and sink’ the battle against inflation.” Meany and several labor leaders had abandoned Nixon’s Pay Board, established to fight inflation, arguing it favored business. More to Meany’s point, wage freezes set by the Pay Board damaged the working class, who initiated strikes for higher wages to offset inflation. Nixon’s modest success in controlling inflation ended when oil prices increased in 1973, upsetting his economic controls. “We Won't Let Anyone Torpedo the Anti-Inflation Effort,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, March 24, 1972.
16. LOCHER_220916_025.JPG: "HOW ARE THINGS AT THE JIGSAW PUZZLE FACTORY?" With President Richard Nixon guaranteed to receive the Republican Party nomination as presidential candidate in 1972, the elephant laughs at the Democratic Party donkey trying to patch together a leader capable of beating Nixon. At the beginning of April 1972, there were twenty-three Democrats vying for their party’s nomination. After George McGovern’s decisive win in Wisconsin on April 4, the candidate pool dwindled, although Edmund Muskie and George Wallace remained strong candidates. Ultimately, Richard Nixon resoundingly defeated George McGovern. “How Are Things At The Jigsaw Puzzle Factory?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, April 6, 1972.
17. LOCHER_220916_032.JPG: “SH! DON'T LAUGH TILL AFTER HE LEAVES” Although Nixon signed the Tax Reform Act of 1969 with the intention of benefiting the poor and increasing taxes on the rich, Herblock shows a common citizen left nearly penniless after paying his income taxes. In seeking to stimulate the economy, the Nixon administration had reduced corporate income taxes. Reflecting on this, Herblock depicted bloated businesspersons, labeled “Subsidized Industries,” “Corporate Farms,” and “Freeloading Big Businesses,” who stand and wait to receive government handouts and favors and hold back their laughter at the little man. Enlarge “Sh! Don’t Laugh Till After He Leaves,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, April 14, 1972.
18. LOCHER_220916_043.JPG: “OUR STATISTICS SHOW THAT THINGS ARE BETTER THAN THEY WOULD BE IF THEY WERE WORSE THAN THEY ARE” Herblock graphically portrayed a victim of violent crime learning from the Nixon administration that actual crime rates were down. In election years, crime statistics enter campaign discourse, with Republicans and Democrats promising improvements in law enforcement. The Nixon administration had declared a “war on crime” in 1970 and, along with the 91st Congress, introduced major crime legislation. Nevertheless, in 1972, violent crimes had dramatically increased, even while crimes against property and the overall crime rate had fallen. “Our Statistics Show That Things Are Better Than They Would Be If They Were Worse Than They Are,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, September 29, 1972
19. LOCHER_220916_054.JPG: “WHO WOULD THINK OF DOING SUCH A THING?” Only three days after the June 17, 1972, arrest of five men at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C., Herblock used the power of his ink brush and pencil to point a finger at President Richard Nixon, his re-election campaign manager John Mitchell, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. Herblock’s Washington Post colleagues, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, determined that one man whom police apprehended at the scene, James W. McCord, Jr., received a salary from the Republican Party. “Who Would Think of Doing Such a Thing?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, June 20, 1972.
20. LOCHER_220916_065.JPG: “REMEMBER, WE DON'T TALK UNTIL WE GET A LAWYER” Herblock used the White House barricade as a metaphor for the retreat and disavowal of participation in the Watergate break-in by President Nixon, his re-election campaign manager John Mitchell, and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst. As Kleindienst and Nixon quiver, Herblock portrays Mitchell as the leader barricading the door and giving orders. Herblock also selected newspaper headlines associated with Mitchell in his former role as attorney general and in his current role managing the Committee for the Re-election of the President. “Remember, We Don't Talk Until We Get A Lawyer,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, June 21, 1972.
21. LOCHER_220916_076.JPG: “COME BACK AFTER THE ELECTION—I'M KIND OF TIED UP RIGHT NOW” Portraying the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP) thrown into disarray by the Watergate scandal, Herblock personified the organization as a man entangled in tape attempting to slam the door against a man representing the United States Court. The Nixon administration demanded that hearings in a civil lawsuit on behalf of the Democratic National Committee resulting from Watergate break-in be delayed until after the November presidential election. Not long after he called the lawsuit a “political stunt,” John Mitchell resigned as Nixon’s campaign manager. “Come Back After The Election—I'm Kind Of Tied Up Right Now,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, July 19, 1972.
22. LOCHER_220916_084.JPG: “THE SECRET NEGOTIATIONS ABROAD ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO THE ONES AT HOME” After Bernard L. Barker, one of the five men arrested in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, cashed a check made out to the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP), the General Accountability Office launched an investigation. Herblock drew two people leaving the White House with funds, but the title of his cartoon compares the secrecy behind campaign fundraising with the secret negotiations in Paris between national security advisor Henry Kissinger and a delegation from North Vietnam. “The Secret Negotiations Abroad Are Nothing Compared To the Ones at Home,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 3, 1972
23. LOCHER_220916_097.JPG: “KEEP THE LID ON TILL AFTER THE ELECTION!” By offering the visual metaphor of election campaign scandals escaping like steam popping a pot lid, Herblock showed the great lengths Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and President Richard Nixon went to thwart investigations into the Watergate break-in. Just days after Nixon was nominated by the Republican Party in Miami Beach, Florida, the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced that the president’s re-election committee had violated the Federal Election Campaign Act. “Keep The Lid On Till After The Election!” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 29, 1972.
24. LOCHER_221020_001.JPG: Herblock Looks at 1972: Fifty Years Ago in Editorial Cartoons, Part II The presidential incumbency advantage may be more myth than reality and the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CREEP) did not take victory as a given. President Richard Nixon’s (1913–1994) White House actively involved in the Watergate Hotel break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters on June 17, 1972, also laundered campaign funds through Mexican bank accounts. Herblock implied that CREEP also actively contributed to the Democratic Party disarray. Nixon disavowed participation in any scandal. In November 1972, he won a landslide victory over Democratic candidate George McGovern, garnering sixty percent of the popular vote and a massive Electoral College victory. Herblock also lifted his ink brush and pen to address issues of inflation, pollution, public transportation, gun control, and the Vietnam War. An avowed independent, Herblock humorously addressed dysfunction in the Democratic Party after George McGovern selected a second vice-presidential candidate to run with him. The cartoonist advocated for environmental issues and gun control throughout his seventy-two-year career. These ten cartoons—with new drawings introduced into the exhibition every six months—have been selected from the Library’s extensive Herbert L. Block Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. September 24, 2022–March 18, 2023
25. LOCHER_221020_006.JPG: “DEEP BREATHING, NOW—THAT'S IT—OUT GOES THE BAD AIR— IN COMES THE BAD AIR—” Although President Nixon signed the Clean Air Act into law in 1970, air pollution continued to affect the quality of air people breathed in the United States. In July 1972, a heat wave led to smog blanketing the Washington, D.C., area so that people could not see the top of the Washington Monument. Herblock used the metaphor of children exercising and unable to breathe out bad air or see much of the world around them to draw attention to the issue. “Deep Breathing, Now— That’s It—Out Goes the Bad Air—In Comes the Bad Air—,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, July 30, 1972.
26. LOCHER_221020_019.JPG: “SECRETARY BUTZ SAYS THE PRICE OF STEAK IS JUST RIGHT” Portraying a couple reading a newspaper and preparing to eat a candlelit dinner of dog food, Herblock referred to a speech Department of Agriculture Secretary Earl “Rusty” Butz made to the Southern Regional Republican Women’s Conference. As food prices skyrocketed, newspapers filled with suggestions of meat boycotts and consuming cheaper cuts. Enlarge “Secretary Butz Says the Price of Steak Is Just Right,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, March 26, 1972.
27. LOCHER_221020_030.JPG: “FINE, COUSIN—AND HOW ARE THINGS WITH YOU?” Herblock ridiculed lobbyists as criminal thugs terrorizing people seeking mass transit and to stop construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline. In 1972, as the Senate Public Works Committee first voted to use some of the highway trust fund for public transportation, the highway lobby successfully leaned on the committee to change their vote. The oil industry received support from U.S. District Court Judge George L. Hart, who ruled that the Interior Department could issue permits to construct the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline. “Fine, Cousin—and How Are Things with You?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 17, 1972.
28. LOCHER_221020_036.JPG: “TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, CREEPS IN THIS PETTY PEACE FROM DAY TO DAY” Herblock occasionally drew upon literary allusions in his editorial cartoons. Here, he adjusted a quote from Shakespeare’s Macbeth as well as an image of an exhausted dove of peace to signify his frustration with the secret peace talks in Paris between White House aide Henry Kissinger and Hanoi emissary Le Duc Tho. As Henry Kissinger returned to the United States without a cease-fire treaty in hand after intractable negotiations, pessimism increased about peace in Vietnam. “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Creeps in This Petty Peace from Day to Day,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, December 17, 1972.
29. LOCHER_221020_043.JPG: “HEAR ANY TALK ABOUT A CEASE-FIRE HERE AT HOME?” A strong advocate for gun control, Herblock compared the lack of peace in Vietnam with gun deaths in the United States. It is not clear whether the cartoonist reacted to any specific shooting event or the mounting tally of handgun murders in the United States. An increase in the homicide rate led to the Los Angeles Times to call for a ban on privately owned handguns the week before Christmas in 1972. “Hear Any Talk About a Cease-Fire Here at Home?” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, December 28, 1972.
30. LOCHER_221020_055.JPG: MAN WATCHING NIXON ON TV Herblock satirized the “President Nixon, now more than ever,” series of television advertisements for the 1972 presidential election campaign. He later wrote in Herblock Special Report (1974), “Nixon’s landslide re-election was trumpeted as a mandate. But even after the facts of the campaign methods used became known, few asked why—if the people wanted to give Nixon a mandate—it was necessary for him to use so much illegal money, or to employ such subversion and sabotage in manipulating the opposition party’s choice of candidates.” Man Watching Nixon on TV, 1972. Published in the Washington Post, October 13, 1972.
31. LOCHER_221020_065.JPG: “REMEMBER, IT ISN'T WHETHER YOU WON OR LOST —” Herblock depicted President Richard M. Nixon callously celebrating his own victory, while shaking the hands of wounded Republicans who had not won their own campaigns. Having spent the summer castigating Nixon for the Watergate scandal and other monetary improprieties, the cartoonist implied that Nixon had cheated. Nixon easily won re-election in 1972, carrying 49 states. However, Democrats retained their majority in Congress and gained one gubernatorial election over the Republican Party. “Remember, It Isn't Whether You Won or Lost—,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, November 9, 1972.
32. LOCHER_221020_072.JPG: “WHAT INTERESTED ME PARTICULARLY, SARGE, WAS YOUR WORK WITH THE PEACE CORPS” Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern selected Sargent Shriver after he compelled Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton to withdraw his candidacy as the Democratic Party vice-presidential nominee on July 31, 1972. By drawing McGovern with a knife in his back and an arrow through his arm, Herblock indicated that the Democratic Party had been feuding and that Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, could end dissent. The Democratic National Committee ratified Shriver as a candidate on August 8, 1972. “What Interested Me Particularly, Sarge, Was Your Work with the Peace Corps,” 1972. Published in the Washington Post, August 8, 1972.
33. LOCHER_221020_083.JPG: THE GREAT SILENCE With a week to go before the 1972 presidential election, Herblock symbolically buried political morality on the White House lawn. The cartoonist later wrote of the campaign in Herblock Special Report (1974), “. . . the Watergate bugging was only one incident in a massive campaign of political espionage conceived in the White House as a basic re-election strategy.” The Great Silence, 1972. Published in the Washington Post, October 31, 1972.
34. LOCHER_221020_095.JPG: HIGH PUBLIC OFFICE After the House and Senate cleared the way for the passage of the 1972 Federal Election Campaign Act, President Richard Nixon signed it into law on February 7, 1972. With a tiny chair atop a huge bag of money, Herblock implied the money necessary for an election campaign was insurmountable. The financial abuse during the 1972 campaign led Congress to amend the act in 1974 and form the Federal Election Commission as an oversight. High Public Office, 1972. Published in the Washington Post, January 12, 1972.
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Description of Subject Matter: Herblock Gallery
March 18, 2011–Ongoing
The Herblock Gallery celebrates the work of editorial cartoonist Herbert L. Block—better known as "Herblock"—with an ongoing display of ten original drawings, to change every six months, drawn from the Library's extensive Herbert L. Block Collection.
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