Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 31, 1975

Transcript:

Voice from television: As President Ford's recent layoff so dramatically underscores, recession exacts its toll from even the near-great. Hard times on Pennsylvania Avenue provide the grist for Eric Sevareid's analysis. Sevareid: Crippled by double-digit inflation and relentless recession, another Ford factory has closed down. But unlike its Detroit namesake, this factory produced hope and inspiration for millions of Americans, as opposed to pick-up trucks. Yes, at this installation, the employees were the engineers of public policy, the machinists of state initiatives, and the foreman was a well-meaning manager on whose punch clock time had finally run out. To carry the analogy further...