President Nixon creating a noose for himself from the secret White House tapes. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad skewers President Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
While running for president, Jimmy Carter told Robert Scheer in an interview for Playboy magazine that though he was a devout Baptist, he admitted, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times....” (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
President Reagan draws up his will, leaving huge federal deficits for generations to come. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Commenting on Nancy Reagan’s new White House china during difficult economic times for much of the U.S. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad skewers Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty for suggesting that he might be named to a Cabinet post in the Nixon administration. Yorty later sued the cartoonist for libel, but the case was dismissed. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Howls of protest from Northern California followed this cartoon after the north’s 95% rejection of a California ballot initiative that would have provided more upstate water for Central and Southern California. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad draws President Nixon as a criminal barricaded in the White House. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Nixon writes out his famous enemies list -- when in Conrad’s view, the president was his own worst enemy. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Nixon enmeshed in the spider web of deceit from the Watergate scandal. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad’s assessment of the not-guilty verdict in the Rodney King case that led to rioting in Los Angeles. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Victims of poverty and violence, two children consider their futures if they can overcome the odds. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad remembers Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat sparked the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott of 1955. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad imagines the chance confrontation between a father and his son at a Vietnam War demonstration. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Playing off news that President Reagan used a hearing aid, Conrad focused on his deafness to pleas that Marines be removed from Lebanon. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
In a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Hillary Clinton has a suggestion for her husband. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad’s comment on U.S. aid to Iraq during the Reagan administration. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad’s take on Mayor Yorty’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
A practicing Catholic, Conrad long opposed legalized abortion but switched his stance in the late 1980s. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
A 1976 panel showing Conrad’s view on abortion then. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Another take on abortion. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Union Oil’s involvement in the 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara channel. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Nixon is depicted as a used-car salesman trying to sell the country on Gerald Ford. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Conrad reflecting on police attacks on civil rights activists in the South. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
Justice declines a ride with Sen. Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick in 1969. (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)
