at this point, it was a coin toss as to who would be able to win this critical voting block. >> again, all these cartoons were published in a daily newspaper. they actually begin this process, with eight of them. exaggerated. they never want to go, but they appreciate the fact that you took them there when they were kids. >> s captured here, he defined himself in distinction from the, prevailing image of congressional republicans who are seen as hard edged and callous, and not as all -- not at all captured by the word compassionate. at this particular moment in the 2008 presidential primary, barack obama was winning a lot of young people, african-americans, was not winning that white, working-class voters that prolonged the primary contest. the clintons had amazingly good will among african-americans from bill clinton's time in office. Find the perfect Pat Oliphant stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. and he ended up in a heap on the bowling alley. a raging -- arranging these into bruce were difficult. [ applause ] . he had actually done things and was going to bring that sense of fresh blood and fresh spirit into the augian stables of washington, d.c. and that marks a kind of historic turning point at which governor, and in the most recent election, complete outsider, began to become a more appealing political persona for those who were running for president. More Cartoons by Pat Oliphant (1994), Off to the Revolution: More Cartoons (1995), 101 Things to Do With a Conservative (1996), and So That's Where They Came from (1997). >> i would add one other thing. he was very proud of that moment. Uploaded by and that whole perfectly captured sense of entitlement that seemed to pervade mrs. clinton for many years. it shows hillary clinton and barack obama wrestling over the black vote. and if you know anything about john, he's got a lot of bull stories. and there was a lot of joking about the difference in height between governor dukakis and president bush. chris: you just answer the question. i think that is an extraordinary timely, at a time when most people are not thinking about that. the sense that, on the campaign trail he was actually not, in my view, if forceful and charismatic speaker. we're going to be flashing over the course of this session 15 cartoons, just a tiny curated but tiny slice of what we could do and probably should do if we were old enough in time. which pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. it is hard to see the detail but she is wearing these low riding jeans, she has a tattoo on her right arm, and -- an anchor, right. sorry. a lot of this investigation was done extremely confidentially. when i worked for john kerry, he was doing presidential debate prep and we wanted him to break debate camp to do public events. little comment from me. and george w. bush, the one who came next, then finally, we sort of get our toe into the obama presidency. >> and just a take off that. and it is being reborn on some other island in some other form. in fact, during the campaign of 1980, he talked about dominos falling in central america. and of course, it was on a day that he won the maryland primary that he was shot in maryland. you cannot see what punk is saying, but it says beautiful george. when you spend time listening to johnson on the phone, you know a lot about what kind of president he was. unfortunately, those terms were not peace with honor as nixon, and his i want to say accomilous, but there's a different word, magician's assistant, henry kissinger, were able -- were presenting to the public. i have heard from journalists how he would take them into the bathroom as he answered their questions. or with reagan, if he a dunce. the laughter was continuous. and no southerner had been nominated for president since zachary taylor in 1848, even woodrow wilson was governor of new jersey at the time despite his being a virginian. but he at least for a time kind of reminiscent of huey long in the mid1930s, although less permanently, his being forced off the national scene probably changed things in ways that we'll never be able to fully understand. some of you may remember seeing him during the campaign on "laugh-in" saying sock it to me? american history tv tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive. the secretary of symbolism, the suggestion being that carter was so good of mastering the symbols of office. or the real donald trump or the real fill in the blank. "Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress," an exhibition commemorating the Library's recent acquisition of 60 seminal works by one of America's foremost political cartoonists, will open on April 2 in the South Gallery of the Great Hall in the Jefferson Building. many of you probably remember they are talking about the wind factor. Pope John Paul II never expressed anything like this. >> and i'll just very quickly point out, the presence of a kennedy washington, right? one of the things that is interesting about the oral histories that has been conducted, is reading through the ones that have been released. he was going to do something to save the ship. they are looking for that bus to foreign policy. and for a good bit of that campaign, it appeared that wallace might carry enough states to throw the election into the house of representatives, to deny both nixon and humphrey a majority. we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. We heard from presidential scholars, including Ken Hughes and Kent Germany from UVA's Miller Center. so to translate that kind of experience in mass politics into the presidency, especially at a time when in the aftermath of nixon, people were looking to the presidency for some sense of reassurance, some sense that things are going to be okay, he was in an extraordinarily difficult situation. one of them says, what the hell is that gw? doonsbury had a running character in the first few months of the administration. even though carter is the president of the united states, a kennedy is at the wheel. Pat Oliphant is perhaps the most influential political cartoonist in the world. | Cartoon shows school cafeteria with bullet ridden glass from a semi-automatic weapon and dead bodies lying on the floor. president trump, steve been in. well, quite a few things had happened. the guy with the hairy back and his pants falling down. even at times when it was politically inconvenient for them, can you remember a time when we all watched those press conferences because we only got three channels sxrk they were broadcast live on all three at the same time. that is a really good question. >> well, this is actually 1972. now, you all will remember george wallace. president bush got a huge kick. the university of virginia's miller center hosted the event. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant and his work were the subjects of discussion at the University of Virginia, which has just acquired his cartoon collection. i mean, can you remember a time when presidents felt like they had no choice but to hold press conferences on a regular basis? a lot of the cartoons will be looking at this particularly timely. philip, former director of the miller center, and a member of the history department here held prominent positions in both bushes administrations. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). [laughter] michael: my question is, don't you agree? there was a famous cartoon of a, white house limousine outside the white house on cinder blocks. that was part of their virtue. the u.n. envoy to iraq was killed in a truck bomb in august of 2003, and then things began to degrade, in kind of a slow, incremental way. and the notion that he would recover quickly and then do damage seems to fit. which i read as jaded, but others might take a different way. so his doctors had said, you know, for two or three weeks you are not allowed to drive. thanks to the entire staff of the albert and shirley small special collections library. kissinger was the one behind the scenes making things happen. but why? i don't know if you saw that cheney film that came out, cheney has been completely vilified. The Most Offensive Racist Cartoon Published In Major US Daily in 40 Years. i agree with what mary cate said, bush tried to treat quayle the way he thought a vice president should be treated and with the appropriate dignity. >> i think kissinger thought of himself in exactly the way you described. and they are always putting up a front. you have history writing in the book in the upper right. No editorial cartoonist in America wields a sharper pen than Pat Oliphant. with a 1992 debate where he looked at his watched seeming to be bored. he was constantly on the phone. that brought it to mind as well. and back in the late 1970's, bowling shoes had different soles on them so you could slide with one foot and put the brakes on with the other. i was on the 1988 bush/dukakis campaign. notably the punk in the lower left says, who asked me? We heard from presidential scholars, including Ken Hughes and Kent Germany from UVA's Miller Center. 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