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“He [Philip Guston] was very good friends with Philip Roth in the early 70’s. And there was Philip Roth with the almost completed manuscript of Our Gang which was a Nixon satire, and so he obviously showed it to my father. The conversation between the two men and their outrage, which at that time, was really about the Pentagon papers, and the release of the Pentagon papers, which made very clear that the government had completely obscured the facts of the Vietnam War, and kept them from the American people.”— Musa Mayer
Happy birthday to Philip Guston, born on June 27, 1913. Philip’s daughter, Musa Mayer, talks about her father’s hatred of Nixon and his savage Nixon drawings that he made in the early 1970’s. We like to imagine how Guston would handle today’s political climate.
