Images: Times political cartoonist Paul Conrad, winner of 3 Pulitzers, dies at 86

President Nixon creating a noose for himself from the secret White House tapes.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad skewers President Ford for pardoning Richard Nixon.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

While running for president, Jimmy Carter told Robert Scheer in an interview for Playboy magazine that though he was a devout Baptist, he admitted, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times....”  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

President Reagan draws up his will, leaving huge federal deficits for generations to come.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Commenting on Nancy Reagan’s new White House china during difficult economic times for much of the U.S.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad skewers Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty for suggesting that he might be named to a Cabinet post in the Nixon administration. Yorty later sued the cartoonist for libel, but the case was dismissed.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Howls of protest from Northern California followed this cartoon after the north’s 95% rejection of a California ballot initiative that would have provided more upstate water for Central and Southern California.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad draws President Nixon as a criminal barricaded in the White House.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Nixon writes out his famous enemies list -- when in Conrad’s view, the president was his own worst enemy.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Nixon enmeshed in the spider web of deceit from the Watergate scandal.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad’s assessment of the not-guilty verdict in the Rodney King case that led to rioting in Los Angeles.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Victims of poverty and violence, two children consider their futures if they can overcome the odds.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad remembers Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat sparked the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott of 1955.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad imagines the chance confrontation between a father and his son at a Vietnam War demonstration.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Playing off news that President Reagan used a hearing aid, Conrad focused on his deafness to pleas that Marines be removed from Lebanon.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

In a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Hillary Clinton has a suggestion for her husband.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad’s comment on U.S. aid to Iraq during the Reagan administration.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad’s take on Mayor Yorty’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

A practicing Catholic, Conrad long opposed legalized abortion but switched his stance in the late 1980s.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

A 1976 panel showing Conrad’s view on abortion then.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Another take on abortion.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Union Oil’s involvement in the 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara channel.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Nixon is depicted as a used-car salesman trying to sell the country on Gerald Ford.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Conrad reflecting on police attacks on civil rights activists in the South.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)

Justice declines a ride with Sen. Ted Kennedy after Chappaquiddick in 1969.  (Paul Conrad / Los Angeles Times)