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HERBLOCK, Washington Post
At the beginning of 1968, President Johnson appeared poised to run for an easy reelection. Although he had championed his Great Society domestic programs in his State of the Union speech a week earlier, Herblock felt that these measures had fallen victim to the escalating costs of the Vietnam War. Using Archibald Willard's famous painting The Spirit of '76 as a visual metaphor, Herblock castigated a presidential administration that failed to meet its own ambitious goals.
Herblock (1909–2001). Spirit of Second Session, 1968. Published in the Washington Post, on January 26, 1968. Graphite, India ink, and opaque white drawing. Herbert L. Block Collection. |