{"id":10336,"date":"2015-02-13T09:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2015-02-13T09:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T14:27:29","slug":"say-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2015\/02\/13\/say-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Say it with&#8230;Elephants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to kiss and make up. This Valentine Cupid, sweet as he is, carried no red roses to Democrats in 1954, only a satirical reminder of \u201cbroken promises\u201d made in 1952, the year Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected (along with running mate Richard M. Nixon). This Valentine\u2019s Day, hug your favorite Republican &#8212; or Democrat!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10339\" style=\"width: 2000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2015\/02\/valentine-elephant-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10339 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2015\/02\/valentine-elephant-22.jpg\" alt=\"valentine elephant (2)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2015\/02\/valentine-elephant-22.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2015\/02\/valentine-elephant-22-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/files\/2015\/02\/valentine-elephant-22-744x1024.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Leo Herschfield; Democratic Digest Records, Box 24<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This cartoon cover art comes from the records of the Democratic Digest (1953-1961). The small-format magazine was the official mouthpiece of the Democratic National Committee. In addition to correspondence from readers, critics, and Democratic senators and governors, chiefly in response to political issues of the day (among which McCarthyism, civil rights, labor, nuclear weapons, farm subsidies, and party politics), about a third of the collection consists of hundreds of pieces of color and black-and-white layout art, including political cartoons by noted illustrator Leo Hershfield and others. There are also smaller amounts of editorial files and printed material. <em>The Democratic Digest<\/em> was continued in 1961 as <em>The Democrat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post contributed by\u00a0Paula J Mangiafico,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Visual Materials Processing Archivist.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s hard to kiss and make up. This Valentine Cupid, sweet as he is, carried no red roses to Democrats in 1954, only a satirical reminder of \u201cbroken promises\u201d made in 1952, the year Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected (along with running mate Richard M. Nixon). This Valentine\u2019s Day, hug your favorite Republican &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2015\/02\/13\/say-elephants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Say it with&#8230;Elephants?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":10339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,11,46,48],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-from-our-collections","category-fun","category-tech-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Say it with...Elephants? - The Devil&#039;s Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2015\/02\/13\/say-elephants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Say it with...Elephants? - The Devil&#039;s Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s hard to kiss and make up. 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