Existing comment:
(9) "Ah'm makin' way fer Bobby K," ca. 1968.
Watercolor and ink brush over graphite underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-07182 (9)
British cartoonist John Jensen (b. 1930) portrays a somber President Lyndon Johnson sitting in an undersized rocking chair. The artist vividly caricatures Johnson as a morose, demoralized leader, with a sunken mouth, deeply wrinkled face, and a tangle of elongated, misshapen arms and legs. The president's lapel button reads "Ah'm Makin' Way Fer Bobby K," a reminder that his main rival, Robert Kennedy, brother of President John F. Kennedy, announced his candidacy for the presidency on March 16, 1968. Faced with this challenge and worsening news on the Vietnam War, Johnson informed the country on March 31, 1968, that he would not run for re-election. |