To us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks after his last cartoon appeared in the Washington Post. His last cartoon appeared on august 26th, 2001. And he died just a week shy of his 92nd birthday in october. The library of congress has the herbblock collection. We had about 16,000 of his editorial cartoons, but we have nearly all of the work he produced for the Washington
8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. Each week, american artifacts taking viewers into archives, museums and historic sights around the country. The library of congress the largest collection of political cartoons of herbert block known as herblock. Herblocks career spanned 20 years. 72 yores. Years. The librarys sarah duke talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his exhibits in the herblock gallery. Herb block was a midwestern born cartoonist. He began his career in 1929, six months before the Great Depression. He was a moderate conservative in his start. And he was radicalized, not leftleft, put pushed him further towards the center but a Great Depression and then the injustice of world war ii. In 1933, he joined the Scripps Howard company, the Newspaper Enterprise Association which was situated in cleveland, ohio. And then 1946, right after the second world war, he joining the Washington Post where he spent the rest of his career, and he died about six weeks afte
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nixon Library welcome to this replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, a board member at the nixon foundation, as well as the grandson of the 30 seventh president , Richard Nixon. [applause] it is my honor and pleasure to have you at the library today and happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd which makes me excited and i see a lot of young faces in the crowd, a lot of young conservatives. So that is great to see and i encourage all of you to walk around the library, one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons, the birthplace is beautiful, a lot of new stuff to see and if you come back you can visit the archives and do a little research, so much to do here. Today we begin our program by honoring our nation as we always do. Welcome our special guest, charlie kirk. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the presentation of colors and the singing of the national anthem. Oh say can
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