FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 06, 2021

What about Watergate, Paige?

You mean Tricky Dick’s Wet n’ Wild Water Heist of 1967?

It seems like it was only yesterday that Eisenhower was sending advisors to Vietnam.

Yes, I did, its grand opening is tomorrow!

I remember in 4th grade (1974) I had to write a paper about Watergate. I was blissfully ignorant about news, so I wrote that I thought that it was a good idea. Building a gate using sandbags could save people from drowning. Yeah, not one of my brightest moments.

Watergate, hum, something to do with Flint? :)

I wonder if he is reading about Doonesbury?

Back when I was stationed in Japan, we used to get one-day old news. Also, the country is on the other side of the international date line from the U.S. news producers. So the expression was “Yesterday’s news tomorrow.”

Sometimes instead of calling it “news” we called it “olds.”

Damn shame how syndication rules pushed Amend out of doing daily strips.

Yeah…what’s this ‘internet’ thing I keep hearing about?

Nixon was a lot older than I originally thought. I went to Israel a few years ago, and when I was visiting thousands of years old ruins at Masada, I noticed a sign that said “The Water Gate”.

Sounds like an issue that’s bothering Bill Amend.

I bought a rubber Nixon mask to wear over my COVID mask last year. Then it occurred to me; No one under sixty years old even knows who he was.

Isn’t 6 – 8 weeks the norm? Some can get away with shorter deadlines and political cartoonists work very quickly, almost overnight for some.

Takes on a whole new meaning now that the strip’s in reruns. They regularly reference “current” events that are nearly as outdated now as Watergate would have been whenever this ran.

wish this was still daily too…but thank the Good Lord for Sundays

I have the ‘FoxTrot’ cartoon book from this period. I’ve often this strip was Amend alluding to his own deadline problems. May be a factor in the strip being Sunday only?

And the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor.