[White House tape] – Antique Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [White House tape], preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Drawn in India ink over pencil and dated 1973 in the upper left, this sheet takes its title from the White House tapes, the recordings Richard Nixon made of conversations in his office that became central to the Watergate investigation that year. The drawing was published as an illustration for Senator Donald W. Riegle's article "The Ford Nomination as a Way Out," which appeared around November 29, 1973, weeks after Gerald Ford was nominated to succeed Spiro Agnew as vice president. Its caricature line work shows how cartoonists of the period used the tapes as shorthand for a government weighed down by secrecy and mistrust.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil on white wove paper ; 32.7 x 43.0 cm. (sheet) |
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| Genre | upper left: SuarÚs '73. Stamped on verso: Advance Copy Hold in P.E. Title devised. Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.617) Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress). Published as illustration in: "The Ford Nomination as a Way Out" / by Donald W. Riegle |
| Notes | 1973 Nov. 29 [publication date] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 907 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156021 |
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