Go 'way, boy, you bother me! / Gib Crockett. – Vintage Print
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Go 'way, boy, you bother me! / Gib Crockett.
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Gib Crockett's cartoon from March 1967 pairs President Lyndon B. Johnson with South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky, and its caption, "Go 'way, boy, you bother me!", is a dialect dismissal with a demeaning racial history. The Washington Star ran it when Ky was leading the South Vietnamese government and American troop numbers were climbing steeply. The subject tags include patent medicines, which suggests Crockett framed the war effort as a traveling medicine show's sales pitch. Editorial cartoons of this period often used folksy stock figures like this to question official optimism about the war.
| Created / published | c1967. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American 1960-1970.Drawings American 1960-1970. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1973:303.535) Copyright by the Washington Star. Published in: Washington star, Mar. 21, 1967. jr / 860325. BAR updated record 1989-1994. |
| Subjects | Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973. Nguyên, Cao Ky. Patent medicines--1960-1970. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,197 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-170789 |
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