Loon Star State Rick Perry and Richard Nixon
(Ben Sargent)

Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State: Rick Perry Takes Inspiration From Richard Nixon

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A version of this story ran in the September 2014 issue.

Loon Star State Rick Perry and Richard Nixon

Rick Perry’s reads up on Richard Nixon’s constitutional theories in this edition of Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State.

is the Texas Observer's longtime cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper family and learned the printing trade from age 12 and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at 14. He attended Amarillo College and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).

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