Jules Feiffer
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We always get back to Nixon. I think I'll be probably doing cartoons on Nixon in 20 years. He'll outlast us all.
We always get back to Nixon. I think I'll be probably doing cartoons on Nixon in 20 years. He'll outlast us all.
We always get back to Nixon. I think I'll be probably doing cartoons on Nixon in 20 years. He'll outlast us all.
Well, Watergate was enormous fun. Well... Serious people around the country like Eric Severide and others were talking about the tragedy of Watergate. Everybody I knew was laughing like crazy. And one couldn't get enough of these characters on television. And so I had great fun in and out of the cartoon.
Well, Watergate was enormous fun. Well... Serious people around the country like Eric Severide and others were talking about the tragedy of Watergate. Everybody I knew was laughing like crazy. And one couldn't get enough of these characters on television. And so I had great fun in and out of the cartoon.
Well, Watergate was enormous fun. Well... Serious people around the country like Eric Severide and others were talking about the tragedy of Watergate. Everybody I knew was laughing like crazy. And one couldn't get enough of these characters on television. And so I had great fun in and out of the cartoon.
Well, from the start, I described Reagan as the candidate of movie America. And I write in the book in the introduction to the section that there are two Americas out there. There's the real America of which Ronald Reagan is ignorant and his movie America of which he's the most qualified source we have.
Well, from the start, I described Reagan as the candidate of movie America. And I write in the book in the introduction to the section that there are two Americas out there. There's the real America of which Ronald Reagan is ignorant and his movie America of which he's the most qualified source we have.
Well, from the start, I described Reagan as the candidate of movie America. And I write in the book in the introduction to the section that there are two Americas out there. There's the real America of which Ronald Reagan is ignorant and his movie America of which he's the most qualified source we have.
And it's a land which is made up – whose substance is made up of a myth and it's a land of small towns and white picket fences and shady lane streets and small framed houses with happy little families and an Irish cop on the corner and this movie church where you – Everybody goes to hear a movie sermon where Jesus Christ is the gipper and God is our gross national product.
And it's a land which is made up – whose substance is made up of a myth and it's a land of small towns and white picket fences and shady lane streets and small framed houses with happy little families and an Irish cop on the corner and this movie church where you – Everybody goes to hear a movie sermon where Jesus Christ is the gipper and God is our gross national product.
And it's a land which is made up – whose substance is made up of a myth and it's a land of small towns and white picket fences and shady lane streets and small framed houses with happy little families and an Irish cop on the corner and this movie church where you – Everybody goes to hear a movie sermon where Jesus Christ is the gipper and God is our gross national product.
And Reagan actually believes in that world that he was taught existed on the studio backlot. And since most other systems of belief have collapsed over the past 20 years, the belief in the American dream – The belief in civility, the belief in the melting pot, the belief even in a pluralistic society.
And Reagan actually believes in that world that he was taught existed on the studio backlot. And since most other systems of belief have collapsed over the past 20 years, the belief in the American dream – The belief in civility, the belief in the melting pot, the belief even in a pluralistic society.
And Reagan actually believes in that world that he was taught existed on the studio backlot. And since most other systems of belief have collapsed over the past 20 years, the belief in the American dream – The belief in civility, the belief in the melting pot, the belief even in a pluralistic society.
Since people who once put a great stock into that mythology, which can generally be described under the umbrella term, the American dream. Since we've lost faith in that, there was some desperate need to go to some kind of faith, to somebody who believed in something. And when there's no other faith left, you go to movie faith.
Since people who once put a great stock into that mythology, which can generally be described under the umbrella term, the American dream. Since we've lost faith in that, there was some desperate need to go to some kind of faith, to somebody who believed in something. And when there's no other faith left, you go to movie faith.
Since people who once put a great stock into that mythology, which can generally be described under the umbrella term, the American dream. Since we've lost faith in that, there was some desperate need to go to some kind of faith, to somebody who believed in something. And when there's no other faith left, you go to movie faith.
And we had the perfect man in the scene to supply movie faith, and that was a real movie star.
And we had the perfect man in the scene to supply movie faith, and that was a real movie star.