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SPECIAL COVER
In February 1965, the Post Office admitted that it had been tracking the incoming mail of more than 24,000 people after a Senate judiciary subcommittee exposed the unconstitutional government surveillance. Postmaster General John A. Gronouski (1919–1996) refused to turn over the list of those targeted, which included the address of at least one member of Congress. Playing on the visual pun of first day covers—cards or envelopes issued by the U.S. Post Office that mark the first day a new stamp is announced, Herblock also referred to the Post Office’s meaning of the phrase “to spy.”
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Special Cover, 1965. Published in the Washington Post, March 3, 1965. |