Political Cartoons
Tony Auth
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J.D. Crowe Alabama -- The Mobile Register
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Cam Cardow, The Ottawa (Canada) Citizen
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The cartoon shows an American man labeled "U.S.A." blindfolded and bound with the hose to a gasoline pump, which is labeled "U.S. Govt. Failure to end Dependence on Foreign Oil." On Nov. 4, 1979, Islamic revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking nearly 70 Americans hostage in what would be coined the Iranian Hostage Crisis. In an effort to secure the hostages' safe return, President Jimmy Carter embargoed Iranian oil and froze billions of dollars of Iranian assets in the U.S. (Nov. 15, 1979)
This editorial cartoon depicts President Ronald Reagan and counselor Edwin Meese riding in a limo, looking out the window at the poor and homeless sleeping on grates as they make an insensitive comment on their plight. "Strange how some choose to live like that instead of choosing to be rich like us," the drawing reads. (Feb. 2, 1984)
