In my opinion President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the most positively perceived and supported by the American people in political cartoons of the day. His popularity was due to the fact that he was a decorated general during World War II and people respected his leadership. He "endeared himself to the American people with his plain talk, charming smile, and sense of confidence"(Pach, 2016) that popularity is reflected in the political cartoons. Most of the cartoons I studied were more or less a gentle poke at the presidency. Many of them portrayed him golfing such as the one with Sputnik flying overhead, or the one of him putting in the oval office. There were depictions of more serious matters but on the whole they are not mean-spirited.