Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 13, 1974
Transcript:
Mark: Mike, do you really remember that new frontier stuff? Mike: "The energy we bring to our endeavors will light our country! The glow from that fire can truly light the world!" Mike + Mark: Ha, ha, ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha, ha! Mark: Heh... God, what's happened to us? Mike: I dunno, man, I dunno...
I was 14 when this Doonesbury strip came out. By this time I had seen the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Senator Robert Kennedy, along with massive rioting across the urban areas of the nation. The sense of loss exhibited by Mark and Mike in the strip accurately measured the sense of loss the nation was undergoing in the wake of Watergate.