And anyway, most of the time we're on the same wavelength. "I have sometimes opened the paper and gasped at Herb's cartoons, particularly during Watergate when we were so embattled on all fronts," Graham confessed. In her memoirs, publisher Katharine Graham wrote, "Since he arrived at The Post, five editors and five publishers have learned a cardinal rule: Don't mess with Herb." Herblock demanded, and received, total editorial independence at The Post, refusing most requests to tailor his views to the needs of others. If the prime role of a free press is to serve as critic of government, cartooning is often the cutting edge of that criticism." He described his profession as "an irreverent form of expression, and one particularly suited to scoffing at the high and the mighty. The Post's cartoonist from 1946 to 2001 and three time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Herblock was an unrepentant liberal who started his career defending Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and ended it poking fun at George W. Twenty of them are presented in this feature in chronological order. Herblock was the pen name of Herbert Block, the Washington Post's political cartoonist who graphically captured the Watergate story in more than 100 often memorable drawings done between June 1972 and August 1974.
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