Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 14, 1989
February 13, 1989
February 15, 1989
Transcript:
Mark: Wow...all of you are really going to lay off Bush for a whole week? Harvey: It's kind of an experiment, Mark. Our hope is that if we remove the fear of ridicule, perhaps Bush will do something that's actually statesmanlike! Mark: What if he does something really really Bush-like? Harvey: Well, that, of course, would violate the spirit of the honeymoon. We'd have to call it off. We, the undersigned, in order to help George Bush get a handle on the vision thing, do declare a "cartoonists' honeymoon week," and pledge to abstain from ridiculing the president for no less than seven days.
