Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist Who Skewered the Powerful, Dies at 90

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8. Woah.... RIP.

Wow, I loved alot of hs stuff! Mostly during Nixon 's terms. Missed a lot Reagan's, Carter's cartoons, and beyond; basically bc I was no longer seeing his works in whichever newspapers I was reading.
So it might be an intermittent piece showing up in Time Magazine bc I did see a bit of G HW Bush's term.

I don't remember if he lived in Denver for a while but my mom was at a hospital for several months for new treatments for asthma in ?1970; and I rhink she sent me some of his cartoons bc they appeared in the Denver Post.
Anyway I think I asked her to write him and request an autograph. Anyway he did send a cartoon w autograph and I think a little note.

The cartoon that Iimmediately flashed through my mind on reading this was re. Nixon going to China.

Nixon is walking past a portrait of ? John Foster Dulles on the wall (left side of cartoon); JFD sort of partly leaning out of the picture frame and yelling at Nixon....
"That's my boy?!" And Nixon ( center right of the page) is cringing; paetly covering his face w arm held over his head.