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DAN DOWLING, New York Herald Tribune
Although Vietnam was an election issue in 1964, Dan Dowling overestimated its ability to undermine the Democratic Party and President Johnson. Johnson parlayed his landslide victory into a power base that permitted him to push Congress hard into passing his Great Society legislation. He also escalated the Vietnam War after his inauguration in 1965. It proved his undoing, and in 1968, he chose not to run for reelection. A Midwestern cartoonist by training, Dan Dowling worked for the New York Herald Tribune from 1949 to 1967.
Dan Dowling (1909–1993). Reviewing the Situation in Vietnam, 1964. Published by the New York Herald Tribune, 1964. India ink, tonal film overlay, graphite, and opaque white drawing. Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature. |