[Vision2020] Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Paul Conrad Dies at 86

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of MSNBC at:

 

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LOS ANGELES - Paul Conrad, the political cartoonist who won three Pulitzer
Prizes and used his pencil to poke at politicians for more than 50 years,
died Saturday, his son said. He was 86. 

 

Conrad died before dawn at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Rancho
Palos Verdes surrounded by his family, David Conrad said.  He said the death
was from natural causes, but did not offer specifics.

 

Paul Conrad took on U.S. presidents from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush,
mostly in the Los Angeles Times, where he worked for 30 years and helped the
newspaper raise its  national profile.

 

He was fierce in his liberalism and expressed it with a stark, unmistakable
visual style. Southern California political junkies for decades would start
their day either outraged or delighted at a Conrad drawing.

 

The Times said in a Saturday story that its longtime publisher came to
expect that his breakfast would be interrupted by an angry phone call from
then-governor Ronald Reagan or wife Nancy, peeved by a Conrad cartoon that
made them look foolish.

 

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Courtesy of Paul Conrad . . .

 

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Rest well, Paul.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails." 

 

- Unknown 

 

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