"President Barclay meets the press."
A sketch of men and women, including Black and white journalists, seated around a long table with a man at its head labelled in the caption as President Barclay. The scene presents a head of state's press conference as an orderly, mixed-race gathering. The technique fit is weak: the dignity of the setting and office is the only persuasive device visible.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of War Information (cartoon artwork; artist Charles Alston)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Media and information, Race and ethnicity
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives, RG 208, Artworks and Mockups for Cartoons Promoting the War Effort, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Office of War Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 208, 208-COM-48 (NAID 535618).
Text on the object
President Barclay meets the press. Alston Blair House May 27, 1943
