Today’s ed-page cartoon in the London Daily Telegraph shows GWB being

brought down by a falling dollar, with one of the ropes tugging on the

dollar labeled IRAQ.

That brought a very dim memory to mind. Some reader with access to way-back

archives of magazines might be able to confirm it. I believe it was the

early stages of the 1968 campaign. The editor of the New Statesman

(left-wing London weekly) opined that the Vietnam War would be brought to an

end not by the clash of arms but “by the tinkle of falling dollars” (or some

such words). If anyone can confirm this, I’d be much obliged.

That editor, by the way, would have been our own Paul Johnson, in the days

before he saw the light.