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'I don't want to rush you...but I'd like to throw out that tree one of these days.' 'What should I give?! What should I give?!''
'I don't want to rush you...but I'd like to throw out that tree one of these days.' 'What should I give?! What should I give?!''
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'I don't want to rush you...but I'd like to throw out that tree one of these days.' 'What should I give?! What should I give?!''

Vance Rodewalt was the political cartoonist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Issue: Provincial politics and economic conditions in Alberta; budget surplus. Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, dressed as Santa Claus, looks into a sack labeled 'surplus'; most of the needles and decorations have fallen off the Christmas tree. 
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Date 2000-01-21 
Creator Rodewalt, Vance
Person(s) or Group(s) Klein, Ralph
Genre Photographs
Place Alberta
Subject Alberta--Economic conditions, Alberta--Economic policy, Alberta--Politics and government, Budget--Alberta, Caricatures and cartoons, Christmas trees, Political satire, Premiers--Alberta, Santa Claus
Archival Information
Repository Glenbow Archives
Fonds/Collection Vance Rodewalt fonds
Reference code CA ACU GBA F3016 
Link to Finding Aid https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/vance-rodewalt-fonds
Unique identifier CU234875 
Legacy Identifier m-9457-908 
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Attribution "'I don't want to rush you...but I'd like to throw out that tree one of these days.' 'What should I give?! What should I give?!''", 2000-01-21, (CU234875) by Rodewalt, Vance. Courtesy of Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.