Now I've Really seen everything
Two men with shovels, one beside a sign reading 'Let's forgive and forget. Signed Dick, Harry', bury a hatchet in a mound of earth while a bespectacled man marked 'John Q.' watches wide-eyed from a hole. The cartoon argues that two rival politicians have called a truce and that the public finds it hard to believe. The technique tell is the reconciliation slogan 'forgive and forget', which presents a political truce in a softened, friendly phrase.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- October 25, 1958
- 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
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- 1958 US Midterm Elections
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, 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, 5743277 (NAID 5743277).
Text on the object
LET'S FORGIVE AND FORGET Signed Dick Harry JOHN Q. JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
