Enduring Outrage:

Editorial Cartoons by HERBLOCK

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In 1975 President Gerald Ford vetoed the proposed Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, despite an overwhelmingly pro-environment vote in the House of Representatives. Ford argued that jobs would be lost, utility bills would increase, Americans would be more dependent on foreign oil, and coal production would be unnecessarily reduced. Herb Block attacked the coal strip mining interests by depicting a man literally peeling off the Earth's crust east of the Rocky Mountains, implying that President Ford was in the pockets of the coal lobbyists.
In 1975 President Gerald Ford vetoed the proposed Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, despite an overwhelmingly pro-environment vote in the House of Representatives. Ford argued that jobs would be lost, utility bills would increase, Americans would be more dependent on foreign oil, and coal production would be unnecessarily reduced. Herb Block attacked the coal strip mining interests by depicting a man literally peeling off the Earth's crust east of the Rocky Mountains, implying that President Ford was in the pockets of the coal lobbyists.