Transcript: Political Cartooning - Today and Yesterday

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January 21, 1995
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JACKI LYDEN, Host: The Republican takeover of Congress is like fresh meat for the nation's political cartoonists. There's the fight over the balanced budget, the clash over welfare reform, and then there is the Republicans' new leader. The House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, was recently quoted as saying females in a combat situation would have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days. Men, on the other hand, he said, fare better because they are basically little piglets. We asked Ed Gamble [sp] of the Florida Times Union and Tom Toles [sp] of the Buffalo News how they are depicting Mr. Clinton' s political struggles and Speaker Gingrich's social ...

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