Is anyone familiar with this Oliphant cartoon?

[Brian Sweat]

The one on the left is obviously Nixon, but I cannot figure out who the one on the right is. It kind of looks like Clinton, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why Oliphant would put Nixon and Clinton in a cartoon like this. I'm guessing that this is a very old cartoon (circa 1973) and the one on the right is someone from that era. Does anyone know who the one on the right is and what this cartoon is about?

[Burma Jones]

1. Agnew???

[DrWeird]

2. Mmm, kettle calling the teapot black?

Left could also be Dole, no?

[lancdem]

3. I think it's Dole

so it's probably from 1996.

Yes, I think it means the pot calling the kettle black.

[AngryYoungMan]

4. It's Kruschev

eom

[kstewart33]

5. I'd bet that it's Melvin Laird

Laird was Nixon's Secretary of Defense until 1972, I think. The cartoon looks just like him. It can't be Dole or Agnew who had a large but very straight nose.

[11 Bravo]

6. It's Clinton and Dole.

n/t

[AngryYoungMan]

7. You're right, I'm wrong

Copyright says 1996. Clinton and Dole

[Richardo]

10. It *is* clinton and dole...verified at a Pat Oliphant site...

crap - I was SURE it was Nixon and Krushchev...

[rog]

11. Yup, Clinton and Dole ... here's the caption.

A poll published on October 22, 1996, revealed that 63 percent of Americans thought that Dole spent more time attacking Clinton than explaining what his policies as president would be. Dole attacked Clinton's ethics and said of the White House at an October 27 Republican gathering, "It's the animal house!"

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/oliphant/part3.html

.rog.

[BiggJawn]

8. I make the date in the upper right as 1996...

Universal something-or-the-other...
But that's not Nixon on the left. The nose is all wrong. looks more like Dole. That's the Big Dog on the right. I've seen Oliphant draw him like that before...

[Richardo]

9. I know I know - It's Krushchev

"The Kitchen Debate" would have been around 1958-1960...while Nixon was VP under Eisenhower...provides the setting (note the counter top etc).

[Brian Sweat]

12. I'm sure you are correct.

Regardless of the copy right date (1996), the one on the left is clearly Nixon. Bob Dole does not have the pronounced widow's peak that the kettle on the left has. The one on the right does look like Krushchev.

I just don't get the pot calling the kettle black reference, but then I am not familiar with the Kitchen Debate.

[Richardo]

13. I was pretty proud of that, but have been shot down - see post #11

:(