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Home to Roost
Artifact ID1965.28.271
Object Type
Cartoon Drawing
Publisher
Chicago Tribune
()
Gifter
D.E. (Ed) Holland
Artist
D.E. (Ed) Holland
(United States, 1918 - 2009)
Date
ca. September 1965
Medium
Ink and grease pencil on drawing paper
Dimensions17 1/2 × 12 1/8 in. (44.5 × 30.8 cm)
Physical DescriptionPhysical DescriptionOriginal cartoon drawing. A donkey fiddles with his TV set ("U.S. Image Abroad") saying, "Lost my picture". Meanwhile above him, three vultures ("Cuba", "Dominican Republic", "Vietnam") roost on a TV antenna. Caption reads: "Home to Roost". Artist signature lower right: "Holland". Additional text at lower left: "© 1965 by The Chicago Tribune.".
Inscriptions and MarkingsHandwritten at lower right: "To President Lyndon Johnson,with best wishes - Ed Holland". Handwritten at lower right: "OK [indecipherable]".
Historical NoteIn February 1964, the Cuban government shut off the water supply to the Guantanamo Naval Base. In response, President Johnson and Robert McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, resolved this by providing water through the importation of freshwater and desalination of saltwater. In April 1965, the Dominican Revolutionary Party installed a president in the National Palace. In response, President Johnson sent Marines to the Dominican Republic to evacuate American citizens from the country, end the civil war, and establish a conservative Reformist Party government. In August 1964, US ships were seemingly attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that allowed President Johnson to take military action. In February 1965, Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder to bomb North Vietnam and in March, 3500 Marines were deployed in Vietnam. Over 1965, the year this cartoon was made, President Johnson escalated the conflict to a full-scale war with 175,000 American troops.Additional Details
Credit LineLyndon Baines Johnson
National Archives Catalog CollectionLyndon B. Johnson Library Museum Collection (National Archives Identifier 192413)
National Archives Catalog SeriesGifts from the General Public (National Archives Identifier 189698395)
Use Restriction StatusRestricted - Fully
Use Restriction Note(c) D.E. (Ed) Holland
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