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Why not try some medicine from that other bottle?
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Description | World War II cartoon shows President Roosevelt as a doctor taking the pulse and temperature of his patient, John Q. Public. The president says, "His optimism is rising. I think we ought to bring it down a little." In the background, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, as nurses, pour out a dose from a bottle labeled "Cheering War News." Another bottle labeled "The Bad War News" sits on a shelf. In the late spring of 1942, Americans received some favorable war news including the Doolittle bombing raid over Tokyo and the naval victory over the Japanese at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Asked at a press conference if the American public was in danger of becoming overly optimistic, Roosevelt responded that it was going to be a long war and people should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Stimson, Henry Lewis,--1867-1950. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Knox, Frank,--1874-1944. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | John Q. Public (Symbolic character)--1940-1950. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Sick persons--1940-1950. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | World War, 1939-1945--Communications--United States. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
