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title: I'm not sure I lost!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-im-not-sure-i-lost-1956/
description: A smiling man in overalls and a checked shirt, a cap labelled ADLAI in his hand, sits on a farm fence holding a newspaper whose headlines read PRESIDENT'S
section: Collection
---

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[![I'm not sure I lost!, 1956 US cartoon: A smiling man in overalls and a checked shirt, a cap labelled ADLAI in his hand, sits](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-im-not-sure-i-lost-1956.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/berryman-im-not-sure-i-lost-1956.jpg)

# I'm not sure I lost!

A smiling man in overalls and a checked shirt, a cap labelled ADLAI in his hand, sits on a farm fence holding a newspaper whose headlines read PRESIDENT'S PLEA ON HUNGARY REFUSED BY BULGANIN, EISENHOWER'S PROGRAMS FACE OPPOSITION CONGRESS, U.N. OCCUPATION OF SUEZ COMPLICATED BY SOVIET AID TO ARAB COUNTRIES, and U.S. RELATIONS WITH FORMER WESTERN [allies]. The cartoon argues that the day's bad news for the administration leaves the defeated candidate in good humour; the tell is plain folks, a candidate shown as a farmhand.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
I'm not sure I lost!
PRESIDENT'S PLEA ON HUNGARY REFUSED BY BULGANIN
EISENHOWER'S PROGRAMS FACE OPPOSITION CONGRESS
U.N. OCCUPATION OF SUEZ COMPLICATED BY SOVIET AID TO ARAB COUNTRIES
U.S. RELATIONS WITH FORMER WESTERN
ADLAI
JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
```

[← Et Tu...? \[Dulles and the UN vetoes\]](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/et-tu-dulles-un-veto-berryman-1956/) [World Pictorial News poster, Nov 1956: Ford at Kremlin (Urdu poster distributed in Karachi) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/world-pictorial-news-kremlin-ford-gibson-urdu-1956/)

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- ['This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/harrison-north-bend-log-cabin-sinclair-1840/) (United States · 1840 · Plain folks, Transfer)
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