Jules Feiffer Quotes
We have come to see him as not vital but violent, not clever but devious, not shrewd but cynical.
Referring to Lyndon B. Johnson:
Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, Quoted in Caute, The Year of the Barricades, 1988
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Franklin was America’s preeminent diplomat. He was particularly resented by the British authorities because he had achieved so much fame as a “British” scientist and man of letters, had been recognized and decorated by British institutions, was wealthy and very popular in London and all over Europe. Above all, the King could not understand why Franklin was not a loyalist and resented him more than most of the American rebels.
For this and other “insulting” remarks, Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel in 1804 and killed him. However, the result was that Hamilton’s view of Burr was given huge publicity and Burr’s political career died along with Hamilton.
Characterizing Richard Holbrooke, Assistant Secretary of State (Democrat):
Marshall was one of the greatest soldiers who ever served America. He was the Chief of Staff throughout the Second World War and then served as Secretary of State. It was he who devised and implemented the Marshall Plan. McCarthy accused thousands of people of being disloyal including Marshall. He claimed to have lists of communists in the Army and other agencies of government, but never produced such lists. In addition to being a overbearing demagogue, he suffered (and died from) from a serious case of alcoholism. McCarthy’s false and irresponsible attacks eventually caused the Senate to censure him. That and his drinking destroyed his career. Marshall is remembered as one of America’s great figures.
Armstrong rarely commented on politics (see {615854}), but the Governor defying the Supreme Court and not letting his people even go to school with other students was too much for him. He not only made the statement, but he approved it for publication. This shocked many who knew him as an apolitical person. He was particularly distressed with President Eisenhower who although he had warned Faubus that he would enforce the court order and then used federal troops to do so, Eisenhower was a man of action and not rhetoric and his lack of firm public statements overlooked an opportunity to use the Presidential “bully pulpit” and exercise his moral leadership and authority. Many then, and even 50 years later, were not sure where he stood on the issue of school desegregation.
Jules Ralph Feiffer is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as North-America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. He wrote the animated short Munro, which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present, as a cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, adult and children's book author, illustrator, and art instructor.
