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"WE WERE BUSY MAKING SPEECHES ON LAW AND ORDER"
The U.S. House of Representatives and the Justice Department invoked the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925 to investigate several Nixon-Agnew election committees for failing to file the names of contributors and the amounts they donated prior to the presidential election as required by law. Herblock reacted to the lack of disclosure—as well as Nixon’s record-breaking campaign fundraising—by depicting a bloated bureaucrat thumbing his nose at Ramsey Clark’s Department of Justice investigation, confident that he would not be punished for sitting on a pile of unreported campaign funds.
"We Were Busy Making Speeches on Law and Order," 1968. Published in the Washington Post, November 5, 1968. |