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TITLE: "Strange - they all seem to have some connection with this place" / Herblock.
CALL NUMBER: BLOCK, no. 7996 (BB size) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-13650 (digital file from original drawing)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Herbert Block ("Herblock") Rights and Restrictions Information," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/271_herb.html)
SUMMARY: Editorial cartoon shows two men examing three long lines of footprints leaving the White House, one labeled "Bugging Case", another "Nixon Fund Scandals" and the third " Intervention on ITT Case." Herblock is pointing the blame towards Nixon within days of the June 17, 1972 break-in at the DNC headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.
MEDIUM: 1 drawing : graphite, ink and opaque white over blue pencil and graphite underdrawing ; 56.2 x 35.7 cm. (sheet)
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1972 June 23.
CREATOR:
Block, Herbert, 1909-2001, artist.
NOTES:
Title from item.
Signed "Herblock" lower left.
Copyright 1972 by The Washington Post.
Written on top left corner of item: 6/23/72; on lower right: 44.5-2, 29-1.
Forms part of: Herbert L. Block Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in the Washington Post, June 23, 1972.
Exhibited in: "Herblock!" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010.
SUBJECTS:
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous),--1913-1994--Ethics.
ITT Corporation.
Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
Corruption--United States--1970-1980.
Electronic surveillance--1970-1980.
Footprints--1970-1980.
FORMAT:
Editorial cartoons 1970-1980.
Drawings 1970-1980.
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original drawing) ppmsca 13650 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.13650
CONTROL #: 2007678365
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