that we have here in the archives which are the political cartoons and everything else cartoons of lyle lahey. so i'm going to just talk through them and get a little give a little insight into what they say about wisconsin and the shared political life. every once in a while they would be a there would be a cartoon that would actually be funny only in a really dark and sort of sad way. i love how this cartoon you can kind of imagine in the newspaper and the kind of being hit hard by the depiction of the death and destruction and then i think this kind of comment about killing to democratize expecting something about the position towards the war and the u.s. involvement abroad we really see throughout the entire collection or even some of the latest cartoons and we will talk about them in a little bit. they tend to spread democracy abroad that but we also see him being critical of actions in the middle east in iraq and afghanistan and libya and i think that we could imagine serious. this is some of those cartoons that i think can stop you even though there is a type of dark humor it's the typ

. >> lyle lahey is a local cartoonist who commented on national and local and regional news and eventshe is an individual who was born in 1831 in northern end. he served a stint in the korean war from 1954 to 1956, which impacts some of the views and then goes to madison and earned a journalism degree. after that, he does come to green bay and works as a promotion manager for one of the oldest television stations in the state. he does that for 13 years in beginning in 1868 he becomes affiliated with one of the green bay newspapers, later becoming the green bay chronicles. this is a daily newspaper and said that if the manager of the commentary page and quickly becomes one of the cartoonists or the cartoonist for the newspaper. >> expands from 1968 until the time of his death in 2013. >> i am a professor of democracy and justice studies in political science. here at the university of wisconsin green bay. i am here to talk to a little bit about one of the special collections we have here at the archives, all of our political cartoons and lyle lahey. i'm going to talk to a little bit of t

here is a place where lyle lahey is pointing out complex idea come asking us to think about how is it you could be for dead in one situation and against it in another. these are simple ladies of the interpreted teams. his treatment of watergate is really funny. not just because the cartoonist's technique exaggerated this but because there are serious political questions in domestic spaces. i love the idea of nixon already noon leaving the white house, getting a tape recorder at the going away present and you can hear one of the reasons why these cartoons are useful, for students to be able to figure out what is going on in this cartoon and they have to learn a bit about watergate, learn a bit about what actually occurred, figure out this -- there is a whole set of associations that politically illiterate people use to deciphers cartoonists, helps them build up associations and become more critical and well-informed citizens. i love things like this and things like watergate that students have heard of a lot of them are vague on the details and they know anything with a gate on it is a