The artist who drew the most imaginative newspaper illustration of the year 1995 — a front page caricature of “Cry Baby” Newt Gingrich as a chubby, foot-stamping toddler — recalled his work in today's Washington Post, saying it has “become part of America's shutdown lore.”
Indeed, it has.
The send-up of Gingrich, then speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, appeared on the cover of the New York Daily News on November 16, 1995, in the midst of a brief but fateful partial closure of the federal government.
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