There's money enough to support both of you - Now does that make you feel better?" / Herblock." – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of There's money enough to support both of you - Now does that make you feel better?" / Herblock.". An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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There's money enough to support both of you - Now does that make you feel better?" / Herblock."
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Herblock's layered-paper drawing takes its meaning from a single sardonic line: there is "money enough to support both of you," and then the closing question asks whether that makes you feel better. The caption points to the guns-and-butter debate of the later 1960s, when President Lyndon B. Johnson was financing the war in Vietnam while also pursuing his Great Society antipoverty programs, and critics questioned whether the nation could afford both. Herbert Block, who signed his work Herblock and drew for the Washington Post, often used this kind of biting caption to challenge official optimism. The drawing's humor depends on the gap between the reassuring words and the uneasy reality they describe.
| Medium | 1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, opaque white and overlay ; 56 x 38 cm. (sheet) |
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| Notes | c1967. |
| Subjects | Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines),--1908-1973. Vietnam War, 1961-1975. Economic policy--1960-1970. Poverty--1960-1970. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,179 × 5,122 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-208090 |
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