“Virtually anything has more dignity than lying and blundering before the whole stupefied world, which seems to be the politician’s eternal role.” — illustrator Robert Grossman (1940-2018), when asked if his political caricatures were “undignified.”

See: Drew Friedman on Grossman.

Top: Robert Grossman in 1968. Photograph by Jan Welt.

Above: Robert Grossman, National Lampoon foldout cover, 1972, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.

Below: Robert Grossman, The Realist, 1972, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Nixon.