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'Hurry it up, will you, Noah?' – Historic Print

'Hurry it up, will you, Noah?', 1974 Nov. 3 [publication date] — historic drawing
'Hurry it up, will you, Noah?', 1974 Nov. 3 [publication date]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Here Gerald Ford appears as Noah, with the Republican elephant aboard a crowded ark, and the caption "Hurry it up, will you, Noah?" asks him to move faster. Patrick Oliphant drew it for the *Denver Post* and dated it November 3, 1974, two days before midterm congressional elections. Ford had taken office in August after Richard Nixon resigned, and by fall he was facing high inflation and a Republican Party weakened by Watergate. The cartoon uses the flood story to make that pressure concrete: the party is waiting for a leader to act while the waters keep rising.

Created / published1974 Nov. 3 [publication date]
Medium1 drawing on duoshade paper : ink and whiteout with paste-on.
GenreEditorial cartoons 1970-1980.Drawings 1970-1980.
NotesTitle printed below image. Inscribed lower right: 11-3-74. Gift; Patrick B. Oliphant; 1993; (DLC/PP-1993:149). Published in the Denver Post, November 3, 1974.
SubjectsFord, Gerald R.,--1913- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--1970-1980. Republican elephant (Symbolic character)--1970-1980. Inflation--1970-1980. Noah's ark--1970-1980.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193262

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