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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., don’t agree on much.
Except this: political cartoonists. Yes, these political opposites have — amazingly — united behind one of those ink-stained wretches who consistently poke fun and lampoon the powerful: Clifford Berryman, (the late Washington Evening Star and Washington Post editorial cartoonist who died in 1949).
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The two join forces to pay tribute to Berryman in the foreword of a new book, “Running for Office: Candidates, Campaigns, and the Cartoons of Clifford Berryman,” to be released on March 18.
“Editorial cartoonists such as Berryman have served the national interest by putting politicians in perspective, and at that he was a master of the craft,” McConnell and Reid write.
Berryman’s work is the subject of a new exhibit at the National Archives’ Lawrence F. O’Brien Gallery, which runs from Friday through Aug. 17. The drawings were discovered in the Washington home of Berryman’s daughter after her death in 1992. The National Archives has had them ever since.
