~~ History ~~

I was cleaning out some files and found a stack of old newspaper clippings. They were cartoons of Jim Lange that I had cut from newspapers of that time. The dates on those news clippings were from the late 1990s, like up to 1994, etc. So when I saw the dates on those news clippings, my thought was that it is time to trash it.

As I began to read some of the items, I realized they are history and I must find a place to put them so they can still be preserved. They are of the years of the Clinton Administration when newspapers every day were filled with news stories and letters to the editor about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair.

I also found in that stack of news clippings page after page of items about that affair. The public seemed to be quite taken with it. For days, every letter to the editor was on that subject. The coverage of this phase of history was unbelievable. This news coverage went on for weeks.

The clippings I found were mostly the cartoons of Jim Lange. His cartoons ran on the editorial page of The Daily Oklahoman. There were 204 of his cartoons that ran in that paper. I don’t know when or why I began to clip them. It may be because the cartoons were about whatever was in the news at the time and all of his cartoons seemed to be about the news of that day. To me, it was always interesting to see his take on the news and I began to clip the ones that I was in agreement with. He seemed to see a cartoon in everyday news.

So I will find a place in my files to keep the clippings. They may be of interest to someone else in the future. They all seemed to touch on the news and politics of those years.