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BACKLASH
Using a sword as a visual metaphor for the cost of the Vietnam War, Herblock depicted President Johnson inadvertently killing his Great Society hopes. When the president announced the proposed 1967 federal budget, which recommended a reduction in domestic spending by ten percent, Mayor John Lindsay (1921–2000) of New York accused Johnson of “shortchanging the cities of America.” Herblock vented that Johnson not only harmed the nation but, “the administration was spending its eloquence and energies, its persuasive powers and prestige, on the war.”
Backlash, 1966. Published in the Washington Post, December 8, 1966. |