Canada as seen through the Eyes of New Brunswick Editorial Cartoonists:
The Insight and Humour of Josh Beutel and Bill Hogan
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Introduction |
Editorial Cartoon Database |
Classroom Activities
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Josh Beutel, Telegraph Journal, 1979-2-6
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Reference number: MC2806-48
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Scope and Content
This illustration uses Jimmy Carter introducing Mao Tse-tung to Richard Nixon to point out revisionist history is not restricted to just Communist countries.
Title
Dick & Teng & Jimmy
Caption
"Mr. Teng… Ah'd like yoo to meet one of our leadin' revisionists."
Issues
Watergate (1972)
Watergate, the major political scandal of the Nixon administration, was set off on June 17, 1972 with the botched burglary and wiretapping of the Democratic Party’s campaign headquarters at the Watergate office and apartment complex in Washington, DC. Persistent investigation into the matter revealed that the espionage had been planned and funded by members of the administration, ultimately implicating many high-ranking government officials, including President Nixon himself. The reporters who uncovered the scandal relied heavily on a source known only as “Deep Throat”, who in 2005 revealed his identity as W. Mark Felt, the deputy director of the FBI at the time. The scandal resulted in the first resignation of a US president.
Persons
Jimmy Carter
- Born October 1, 1924
- Democrat
- President of the United States, 1977 to 1981
- Created a national energy policy and consolidated governmental agencies
- Enacted strong environmental legislation
- Oversaw the Camp David Accords
- Used human rights as the centre of foreign policy
- Managed the release of hostages in the Iranian Hostage Crisis on his last day in office
- Boycotted the Moscow Olympics
- Defeated in a landslide by Republican Ronald Reagan, 1980
Richard Nixon
- Born January 9, 1913
- Died April 22, 1994
- Republican
- Vice President of the US under Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961
- President of the US, 1969 to 1974
- Noted for diplomatic foreign policy (ending American involvement in Vietnam War)
- Deliberately improved relations with China to strengthen position against Soviet Union (known as the "China Card")
- Resigned as president before imminent impeachment related to the Watergate scandal, 1974
Mao Tse-tung
- Born December 26, 1893
- Died September 9, 1976
- Surname also spelled "Zedong"
- Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China, 1943 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1945 to 1976
- Ruled Mainland China after Chinese Communist Party victory in the Chinese Civil War over the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists)
- Declared the formation of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square, October 1, 1949