Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977. 603 pp., 1960s
2. A "Dangerous" Pen
"While Times editorials during the Johnson years maintained a consistent proadministration position on the war in Vietnam, the attitude of the new Times cartoonist Paul Conrad changed from muted hawk to trenchant antiwar critic."
"Sam Yorty was another Conrad target . . .
"By the early 1960s, Paul Conrad, the cartoonist for the Denver Post, had secured a national reputation for his striking characterizations and critical perception of politicians. In 1964 he won the Pulitzer Prize. That year [Nick] Williams [the Los Angeles Times Editor] convinced Conrad to come to the Times.
" . . . In 1967 a disclaimer was put on the masthead that dissociated the cartoons from the management's official pont of view. Conrad called it the "Regan disclaimer," since Reagan, a frequent Conrad target, took office just before the disclaimer was instituted . . . " p. 387