Lexicon. No real context, just oft cited. Itโs from Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool, or The Fireside Watergate. A mass market paperback, Nicholas von Hoffman wrote the text, and Garry Trudeau did single-panel, editorial page style cartoons. One shows senator Sam Ervin saying,
Ah am not beinโ harassinโ towards the witness. Ahm beinโ gruff, and lovable, and yew know it.
The book also has the only drawings I know of Nixon by Trudeau. (Nixon was always shown speaking without being seen, in Doonesbury.)
often wondered where I picked this up could only remember it being trudeau. thank you for this
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