Oh Mister Chairman!
A Democratic donkey in loud clothes, a hammer in one hand and the other cupped to its mouth, shouts while running across boards of a platform marked "'56 PLATFORM (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)". Two planks carry quotations, one attributed to Adlai and one to Averell, on the word moderation. The tell is card-stacking: two selected, opposing quotations are set side by side to suggest party disunity.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- August 7, 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
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- 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, 5743226 (NAID 5743226).
Text on the object
"MODERATION is the Spirit of the Times" ----Adlai "....No Such Word as MODERATION in the Democratic Vocabulary..." ----Averell '56 PLATFORM (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR....
