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WAITING ROOM
As President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s (1908–1973) administration came to a close, Herblock created a waiting room in which unresolved issues anticipated the start of Richard Nixon’s administration on January 20, 1969. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) looks at his watch, as does the African American man representing cities, while Chinese leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) glares from a corner. Herblock conveyed, through his metaphor, that Nixon was not moving quickly enough to shape a government capable of handling the pressing matters, and outgoing president Lyndon Baines Johnson was no longer interested.
Waiting Room, 1969. Published in the Washington Post, January 14, 1969. |