The Lyndon Baines Johnson Song

No President ever did more for civil rights

Than Lyndon Baines Johnson

No President ever did more for education

Than Lyndon Baines Johnson

No President ever did more in fighting poverty

Than Lyndon Baines Johnson

No President ever did more in promoting space exploration

Than Lyndon Baines Johnson

But it was the way he conducted the Vietnam War

That became his divided legacy

What a waste

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 9

 

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 9

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

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Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1972

 Remember Oct. 9

For more buttons, Ms. Anderson, Clergy & Laity Concerned, (402) 426-4006, $25.00/M

This was a button distributed by the McGovern campaign. The reference was to a statement supposedly made by Richard Nixon, Oct. 9, 1968, when he was campaigning for President. Now this is only from my memory, but the quote was something like: "Those who have had a chance for four years and could not produce peace should not be given another chance." At the time Nixon uttered this he was aiming at LBJ's Vice-President and 1968 Dem. nominee, Hubert Humphrey. In 1972 this button attempted to remind voters of how Nixon had not only failed to end the Vietnam War, but actually escalated it.

1968: RFK vs. Nixon

I ran across this political cartoon I drew in, I'm guessing, April 1968. Robert Kennedy throws away a LBJ voodoo doll as he races Nixon to the Capitol. The American eagle looks wary while Gene McCarthy has dug a hole to stop RFK.

Johnson had dropped out of the race in March 1968, Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. I'm not sure why LBJ makes that 3rd Party reference since by April Gov. George Wallace of Alabama had already announced he was running under the American Independent Party banner.

The drawing is too big to scan in one swoop. But here it is in pieces.

Unpublished Drawings ca. 1977-1978

Included in this is a poster dated January 18, 1977 and measuring roughly 24 x 18 inches. Among the passengers in the train you'll find our then newly elected nutty one-term governor, Dixy Lee Radiation.

Also in the notepad there are some initial drawings of a certain dog character I was starting to develop at the time.