Couldn't we negotiate?"" – Vintage Print
![Couldn't we negotiate?"", 1965 Apr. 30 [publication date] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8e/8e5377c4dc7b-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic drawing captures Couldn't we negotiate?"" in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The title, "Couldn't we negotiate?", is framed as a plea, and that line sets this Bill Mauldin cartoon apart from other drawings of the period. It ran in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 30, 1965, as American bombing of North Vietnam was expanding and antiwar teach-ins were drawing crowds on college campuses. Mauldin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for his World War II sketches of weary infantrymen, reprinted it that year with the note that the doves had rarely been so aggressive or the hawks so timorous.
| Created / published | 1965 Apr. 30 [publication date] |
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| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, crayon, and white out over pencil. |
| Notes | Gift; Bill Mauldin; 1975; (DLC/PP-1975:078.1649). Published in the Chicago Sun-Times, April 30, 1965. Reprinted in I've decided I want my seat back / Bill Mauldin. New York: Harper & Row, 1965, p. 132, with the comment, Probably never before in the history of American wars have the doves been so aggressive or the hawks so timorous |
| Subjects | Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects. Doves--1960-1970. Hawks--1960-1970. Fighting--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,302 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-204857 |
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