After the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, his vice president, Lyndon Johnson, succeeded him. The following year the Republican party nominated Arizona's right-wing senator Barry Goldwater as its presidential candidate to stand against Johnson for election to the White House. Goldwater, who held that 'Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice', ran a PR campaign that included photos of himself dressed in the 'uniform' of his home state, wearing a cowboy hat and holding a gun. Abu shows Johnson and the gun-toting Goldwater in an Arizona landscape with its unique giant saguaro cactus plants. (Johnson beat Goldwater in a landslide victory, tasking 61% of the votes.)
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Cartoon showing President Lyndon Johnson walking with a bag shaped like a bomb and labelled 'Diplomatic bag.' Cartoon criticises President Johnson's gunboat diplomacy and suggests that US policy in Vietnam was entering a more dangerous phase which, if unchecked, could result in a conflict with Russia and China.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Cartoon showing a blinded President Lyndon Johnson leading British politican Harold Wilson and Stewart through a Vietnamese battlefield. Refers to the growing objection to the US invasion of Vietnam and the British support for it.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Cartoon showing President Lyndon Johnson rewriting the inscription of Abraham Lincoln's monument in Washington. The original - taken from President Lincoln's Gettysburg address - reads 'Government of people.'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Cartoon showing (left to right) Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, Prime Minister Harold Wilson - note the lapels in the style of the Gannex mackintosh that Wilson popularised - and Defence Secretary Dennis Healey, dressed in the uniforms of the British military commanders of the Napoleonic War. US President Lyndon Johnson is also dressed as Louis XIV, the 18th century French 'Sun King.'
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Cartoon showing President Lyndon Johnson chastise Mr Stewart in his office whilst two white doves symbolising peace lie dead on the ground.
Creator: Abraham; Abu (1924-2002); cartoonist
Lyndon Johnson pointing at Mao Zedong as Charles de Gaulle pokes Zedong in the chest
Sans titreLyndon Johnson sitting a log reading a paper entitled 'Greek Turk Crisis', as a Nato cat and dog fight in the distance and Nikita Khrushchev rolls on the floor laughing
Sans titreLyndon Johnson pulling the 'Bill of Rights' reins of a stubborn horse to a bucket representing racial tolerance.
Sans titreLyndon Johnson carrying a gun engraved with MLF heading towards the Labour Party Conference, Harold Wilson runs in front holding the gun's barrel.
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