Snark Blocker - Herblock Takes on Every President Since Hoover!

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By Brian Cronin

Published Oct 7, 2008

Herb "Herblock" Block had just so many great comic strips I could not fit them all in, and one thing I ended up omitting was the fact that, due to his longevity, the man produced cartoons caricaturing every United States President since Herbert Hoover!!

I figured, though, that that was far too cool NOT to mention, so, well, here ya go!

Enjoy the following comics of each President since Hoover...

Here is a two-fer, Hoover AND Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

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Before the 1948 election, things were not looking good for Harry S. Truman when a bunch of Southern Democrats split off to form their own party under Henry Wallace.

So Herblock drew Truman as though he was one of the doomed troops in Alfred Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Of course, Truman ended up having a better ending than they did...

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Herblock does not treat Eisenhower too fondly here...

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Here, Herblock depicts how Kennedy's grand plans were stalled by Congress' unwillingness to act - it was not until after JFK's assassination that much of his ideas were put into law by Congress...

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Herblock shows LBJ reeling from the fact that Everett Dirksen, the Republican Minority Leader of the Senate and a close ally of Johnson (from Johnson's past in the Senate) especially with regards to escalation of the Vietnam War, turned on Johnson for his handling of the Vietnam War...

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I don't think this Nixon one needs explanation...

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Barry Goldwater gave a very lukewarm recommendation of Gerald Ford for the Republican National Convention, saying that he was endorsing Ford because "the fact that at this time in our history I do not believe that our government can suffer through months and months of reorganization that [would] be necessary" if Ford lost.