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
- Date
- November 10, 1956
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Washington Evening Star (cartoonist Jim Berryman)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Elections and party politics, War and the military
- Event
- 1956 US Election
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Records of the U.S. Senate, Jim Berryman Political Cartoons (NAID 5730852), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Jim Berryman, Washington Evening Star. National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Senate, 5743237 (NAID 5743237).
Text on the object
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
