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“It’s for you…” (February 2, 1987) By Charles Phillip Bissell

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Title:	“It’s for you…” (February 2, 1987) By Charles Phillip Bissell
Artist:	Phillip Bissell (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	281
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	8/9/2019
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“It’s for you…” (February 2, 1987)
By Charles Phillip Bissell (1926 - )
8.5 x 12, ink and wash on board

In 1960, Boston Globe cartoonist Phil Bissell, working for $25 a day, was handed an assignment that would change his life—and the lives of fans of the brand-new AFL football team coming to Boston. “Sports editor Jerry Nason came to me and he said, ‘They’ve decided to call the team the Boston Patriots. You better have a cartoon ready for tomorrow’s edition.’”

Bissel’s “Pat Patriot” cartoon was the Patriot’s logo from 1961-1992.

WaPo (Feb 27, 1987): “Nancy Reagan’s campaign to oust Donald T Regan as White House chief of staff is portrayed by friends and other sources as a struggle to rescue Ronald Reagan’s residency, and to protect his honor, his health and his place in history.”

As chief of staff, Regan was closely involved in the day-to-day management of White House policy, which led Howard Baker, Regan's successor as chief of staff, to give a rebuke that Regan was becoming a "prime minister" inside an increasingly-complex Imperial Presidency. Regan was eventually forced to resign for repeatedly disagreeing with the First Lady and for being unable to contain the continuing political damage to President Reagan from the Iran–Contra affair.

Regan's 1988 memoir, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, exposes his disagreements with First Lady Nancy Reagan, revealing publicly that she had a personal astrologer, who was later revealed to be Joan Quigley with whom she consulted and who helped steer the president's decisions. Regan wrote:

“Virtually every major move and decision the Reagans made during my time as White House Chief of Staff was cleared in advance with a woman in San Francisco [Quigley] who drew up horoscopes to make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment for the enterprise.”

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Aidan (Re-Legion ) Lacy
Member Since 2005

Posted on 8/9/2019

It is sad and funny at the same time

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