Abstract
When Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, Block was sixty-four years old and enjoying a renewed level of influence and popularity. Just six days later, the cartoonist took a month-long vacation from his duties at the Post to write the book that would cement his reputation as one of the first and most powerful critics of Nixon’s life and career. A celebratory account of Block’s long and antagonistic relationship with Nixon, Herblock Special Report noted that Nixon partisans, dating back to his tenure as vice president, had stated that critics “who questioned Nixon’s fitness for public office had some