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“I’M A PIOUS MAN OF THE WHOLE CLOTH"
By depicting Senator Everett Dirksen as an ill-kempt and buffoonish tramp wielding an axe and accompanied by armed men, Herblock made it clear that in his opinion the introduction of a school prayer amendment was only a distraction from the senator’s real legislative agenda. Dirksen wanted to base states’ senatorial representation on the “federal plan,” which favored equal distribution across geographic areas and reduced the electoral pull of growing urban centers. Neither bill succeeded.
“I’m a Pious Man of the Whole Cloth,” 1966. Published in the Washington Post, April 1, 1966. |