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“Who Said Anything About Driving Out Castro? We’re Talking About Kennedy”
Everett Dirksen (1896–1969) the Republican senator from Illinois, stated in a press conference about Cuba, “Mr. President, I think you should know we’re going to continue to pummel you about Cuba. There are going to be some brickbats thrown at you and not of the embroidered kind.” Herblock perceived the speech as an attempt to undermine the Kennedy administration internationally because Dirksen did not support either Kennedy’s blockade of Cuba or a physical attack on Castro. The cartoon’s imaginary back-room Republican Party strategy meeting presented generic images of legislators.
“Who Said Anything about Driving out Castro? We’re Talking about Kennedy,” 1963. Published in the Washington Post, February 26, 1963. |