Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 30, 1987
Transcript:
Ron Headrest: If I'm elected president, I promise to lie, lie! I'll set up illegal covert operations and lie about them to Congress and the American p-p-people! If detected, I promise to falsify documents, shred evidence and preserve plausible de-de-deniability! Then I'll take the fifth! But, but with moist eyes! And selflessly! I'll be doing it all f-f-for a higher ideal! Am I an American hero yet? Mike: Not quite. But the telegrams are a nice touch.