Photo, Print, Drawing Nourishment -- on a silver platter!
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Title
- Nourishment -- on a silver platter!
Summary
- Cartoon shows Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie and the GOP elephant eagerly reaching for a cake on a silver platter offered by a smiling President Roosevelt. The cake is labeled, "Never had, and has not today, any desire or purpose to continue in office, to be a candidate, or to be nominated, BUT-- ." Under his arm, Roosevelt holds a box of candy labeled "Has in no way exerted any influence in the selection of delegates!" The quotations come from a speech made at Roosevelt's instigation by Senator Alben Barkley at the July 1940 Democratic Convention. Roosevelt hoped by this speech to allay suspicions that he was campaigning for an unprecedented third term and to lay the ground for his nomination by acclamation. The cartoonist suggests that the Republicans would be wise to be suspicious of this maneuver.
Names
- Pease, Lute, 1869-1963, artist
Created / Published
- [1940 July]
Headings
- - Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945
- - Willkie, Wendell L.--(Wendell Lewis),--1892-1944
- - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--1940-1950
- - Democratic Party (U.S.)--1940-1950
- - Presidential elections--United States--1940-1950
- - Political conventions--United States--1940-1950
- - Elephants--1940-1950
- - Cakes--1940-1950
Format Headings
- Drawings.
- Editorial cartoons--American.
- Sketches--American.
Genre
- Editorial cartoons--American
- Sketches--American
- Drawings
Notes
- - Sketch of Roosevelt, Willkie on verso; not recorded on videodisc.
- - Gift; Lute Pease; (DLC/PP-1954:R02.50).
- - mm / 860529; ljr / 950608.
- - Source: Davis, FDR, Into the storm, p. 596-97 ljr.
Medium
- 1 drawing.
Call Number/Physical Location
- CD 1 - Pease, no. 50 (B size)
Source Collection
- Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- acd 2a10803 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/acd.2a10803
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2016683921
Rights Advisory
- May be restricted: Information on reproduction rights available in LC P&P Restrictions Statement.
Online Format
- image