Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 20, 1980

Transcript:

Man: "Spotted today: two Canada geese and a pintail... also, countless hawks." So how's the debate on the defense budget proceeding, sweetest? Lacey: It's been the dreariest, Dick, positively the pits. Scoop and Pat and Sam have all been strutting about like little cadets. Making capital on a crisis in Iran that had nothing to do with military preparedness. But you know, we had something of a test vote on the increase today. I was about to vote against it when I suddenly thought of you when you were an ensign. The first time i saw you in your dress whites, so crisp and confident, it positively took my breath away. With your tousled hair, and pale blue eyes, you were every schoolgirl's dream! And when you and your chums from Princeton and Yale set sailed from Brooklyn harbor that balmy June in 1942, it was as if you were going to war for the girls you loved and nobody else! Man: So you voted for the increase? Lacey: No, no, of course not. You can't buy that sort of gallantry, dearest.