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A barker sells programs in a ballpark, labeled “State Department.” Players mill about wearing baseball shirts with the name of either “Nixon’s” or “Johnson’s” on them.

Video of Ann Telnaes describing and showing the process used to create her animated editorial cartoons for the Washington Post.

A man, identified as “U.S. Business,” is being startled by a pumpkin that looks like Franklin Roosevelt, which is in turn startled by the man.

A jet, labeled “Arab Arms Sales,” pulls into a hangar, labeled “Congress.” The person waving him in says, “Okay, Sheik, here comes the hard part.”

A Nazi officiating a wedding salutes the bride and groom. Behind the official are armed guards and a bust of Adolph Hitler. A Nazi cupid tosses flowers at the couple.

Characters depicted as the League of Nations (saying, “I got beaten up on election day”), Booze (saying, “Have a heart, Sam”), the Democratic party (saying, “I been in a fight and got licked”), Japanese Colonizers (saying, “I lika get close to your…

Secretary of War William Howard Taft strides with luggage past the “dogs of war.” On his luggage are emblems from around the world. A tag on his arm reads, “The bearer is O. K. Give him a good time—T. R. (Theodore Roosevelt).” Behind him is a…

This cartoon depicts “Washington bureaucracy” looking at a beggar and gesturing to an overflowing file cabinet labeled, “Studies on our Malnourished.” While Washington bureaucracy says, “We have spared no expense,” the beggar holds a cup that reads,…

A thin man, representing the national economy, stands before a fun house mirror. His mirror image, which has a bloated abdomen labeled “Inflation” and thin arms labeled “Unemployment,” tells him, “You are not the fairest of them all!”