and i loved paul conrad's dark images. they were moving and they had deep messages. i think jeff took that a step further with his wonderful sense of humor. i think that extended the reach of the cartoon by reaching a much larger audience with a message with the humor. and so, like any other reader, i loved looking at the political cartoons but i never in my life envisioned being a political cartoonist. i stumbled into it by accident. brian: we're going to show a whole bunch of new cartoons from your book. this is your second book. this cartoon may have been in your first book but it is not in this one. it was very controversial. you will remember it because the secret service came after you. you explain it. michael: basically, i used an old, very iconic photograph from the vietnam war era where the saigon police chief had just caught a vietnamese terrorist who had killed a colonel and his family in saigon, he executed them on the streets of saigon. i used that iconic image to portray george w. bush being assassinated by politics during the advent of the iraq war. th

we are about as diamond -- paul conrad. we were diametrically opposed. had to negotiate upwards to do more cartoons for them. there was a huge transition between publishers. as the publishers came and went from the familiarity between me and the publishers left as well. we came to a point where they were looking at cost cuts. i don't think they ever embraced my philosophy. the only job i ever had outside of military service that i had to put on kevlar and at helmet to walk through the newsroom. brian: we will talk about your new job, where you are now. let us look at some of your cartoons from the new book. "give me liberty or give me a obamacare." why the title? michael: they did not let me put -- an illustrated guide to impeachment. this massive expansion of government. unfunded liabilities when it comes to entitlements. 15 million more americans on government eight. this is whatthing, the administration represents. big government, progressive regime. unlawful regime. what i am proud about in this caseis it really makes the on all of the things that th

famously, richard nixon put paul conrad on his enemies list. president clinton 10 years ago at hofstra right here at the session on his presidency said it was unfortunate that his political opponents turned three-dimensional human beings into two-dimensional cartoons at which point, two of our panelists here who were in the audience stood up and said -- that is what we do. we also note that we have full declarations from the united states supreme court and what they think about political cartoons of our presidents. the case that larry mentioned, that the cartoonists' association was involved in lead to a unanimous decision upholding the basically the right to inflict emotional distress by political cartoonists and justice rehnquist who wrote the unanimous opinion said that about the role of cartoonists. lincoln's tall gangly posture, teddy roosevelt's glasses and teeth and franklin roosevelt's jutting jaw and cigarette holder have been memorialized by political cartoonists with an effect that could not have been obtained by a photographer or po