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title: Wish we had a few more speakers like you around today
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/wish-we-had-a-few-more-speakers-like-you-berryman-1959/
description: A dazed elephant in a coat, with a bandage on its forehead and spectacles, holds a briefcase labelled G.O.P. LINCOLN DAY SPEECHES beneath a framed portrait
section: Collection
---

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[![Wish we had a few more speakers like you around today, 1959 US cartoon: A dazed elephant in a coat, with a bandage on its](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wish-we-had-a-few-more-speakers-like-you-berryman-1959.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/wish-we-had-a-few-more-speakers-like-you-berryman-1959.jpg)

# Wish we had a few more speakers like you around today

A dazed elephant in a coat, with a bandage on its forehead and spectacles, holds a briefcase labelled G.O.P. LINCOLN DAY SPEECHES beneath a framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The cartoon argues that the Republican Party is looking to Lincoln's authority for speeches on his birthday; the technique is transfer, borrowing the standing of a revered figure.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
G.O.P.
LINCOLN DAY SPEECHES
JIM BERRYMAN WASHINGTON STAR
```

[← Epikaira Eikonografimena poster, February 1959 (Greek pictorial poster distributed in Greece)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/epikaira-eikonografimena-february-greek-1959/) [The Internationally Acclaimed San Francisco Ballet in Its First Beirut Appearance (Arabic-English poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/san-francisco-ballet-beirut-arabic-1959/)

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