We're going to streamline you!
At a dinner table, a bald man in a suit, with a sign on the wall initialled 'D.D.E.', hurls a platter labelled 'Old Guard Fare' at an alarmed Republican elephant in a bib, who sits holding a fork beside a notice headed '"Modern Republicanism" Diet' with items A to E left blank; empty plates, a spilled glass and a champagne bucket are on the table. The tell is name-calling by label ('Old Guard Fare'); the fit is weak, as the central device is a visual metaphor of dieting.
Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon
- Date
- November 16, 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, 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, 5743238 (NAID 5743238).
Text on the object
"MODERN REPUBLICANISM" DIET A B C D E D.D.E. OLD GUARD FARE JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
