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PROBLEM: Stephen Colbert  discusses 'Our Cartoon President ' Showtime's new animated series  at the Television Critics Association. The late-night host is an executive producer. (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert â who can thank Trump for vaulting him to the top-rated late-night host â is behind Our Cartoon President  an animated series due on Showtime Jan. 28. The half-hour series will open by anticipating Trump's first State of the Union address two days later. The show will then settle into its regular time slot Feb. 11  when Homeland also returns.
More:  Stephen Colbert  to produce 'truish' cartoon series about Trump White House
 Stephen Colbert  is behind Showtime's animated series 'Our Cartoon President' (Photo: Showtime)
"The show is the interpersonal relationships of people you don't see; the relationships you imagine they have  " Colbert  told the Television Critics Association Saturday. "What we're trying to capture with this show is how stable his genius is."

SOLUTION: Stephen Colbert

PROBLEM: Comic strip artist Mort Walker  a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey " died Saturday.  He  was 94.
 Walker  died at  his  home in Stamford  Connecticut  said Greg Walker  his eldest son and a collaborator. His father's advanced age was the cause of death  he said.
 Walker  began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in  his  career  including "Hi and Lois " ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But  he  found  his  greatest success drawing slacker Beetle   his  hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.
The character that was to become  Beetle Bailey  made  his  debut as Spider in  Walker 's cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s.  Walker  changed Spider's name and launched  "Beetle Bailey"  as a college humor strip in 1950.
At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months   Walker  said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested  Beetle  join the Army after the start of the Korean War   Walker  said.
"I was kind of against it because after World War II  Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away " he said. But his misgivings were overcome and  Beetle  "enlisted" in 1951.
 Walker  attributed the success of the strip to Beetle's indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority "  he  said. "Here's  Beetle  always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."
 "Beetle Bailey"  led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois " which  he  created with Dik Browne  in 1954. The premise was that  Beetle  went home on furlough to visit  his  sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.
Fellow cartoonists remembered  Walker  on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison  president of the National Cartoonists Society  called  Walker  the definition of "cartoonist" in a post on the society's website.
" He  lived and breathed the art every day of  his  life.  He  will be sorely missed by  his  friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans " Morrison said.
Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that  Walker  was "delightful to be around and always willing to draw  Beetle  or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them."
"Beetle Bailey " which appeared in as many as 1 800 newspapers  sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.
Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office   Walker  drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam.  Walker  said  he  received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.
For years   Walker  drew Camp Swampy's highest-ranking officer  Gen. Amos Halftrack  ogling his secretary  Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment  and  Walker  said the syndicate wanted  him  to write out the lecherous general.
That wasn't feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip   Greg Walker  said Saturday.  His  father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training.

SOLUTION: Beetle Bailey

PROBLEM: In her new book " Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II   " journalist Liza Mundy  tells the stories of many of these women who  because they were sworn to secrecy about the nature of their work  have been all but forgotten. Just because these women agreed to be invisible to the enemy  however  doesn't mean they need to be invisible to history.
 Liza Mundy 
Some of these barrier-breaking code breakers are still alive and in  Mundy 's estimation would be "delighted" by developments like the renaming of a residential college at Yale for Grace Hopper  "the queen of code" and "mother of computing" who was a pioneering American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral.
Says  Mundy : "We need a few more buildings to be renamed or named after some of these figures and I hope that happens. I think it will."
On the occasion of the publication of "Code Girls " and International Day of the Girl on Wednesday  CNN Opinion spoke with  Mundy  about  her  experience writing a book about the women  she  calls "the hidden figures of the greatest generation."
 Liza Mundy : In a way  it's thanks to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He insisted that the government consider declassifying its records around the Russian code-breaking project In a way  it's thanks to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He insisted that the government consider declassifying its records around the Russian code-breaking project Venona   which started during the war and then continued for many decades during the Cold War. And because he prevailed  there was a document that was declassified  in which a wonderful NSA historian named Lou Benson wrote about the recruitment of a number of schoolteachers to work on it. Almost alone among historians  Lou not only noticed that there were a lot of women working on the Venona project  but he also thought that it was worthwhile to interview them. So while it was still possible  he interviewed a number of schoolteachers who were recruited during the war. And in many cases these women continued working on it for decades for the NSA. And I thought  "Well that's an interesting kind of small story for an article of a short book."
 Mundy : It's really the work of : It's really the work of Agnes Driscoll   who was working on the Japanese fleet code throughout the 1920s and 1930s and kept diagnosing and re-diagnosing it as it was changing. If Agnes Driscoll had not diagnosed overall how their system worked  we would have gone into World War II with no ability to read the naval communications of the Japanese. It had taken her years to diagnose that entire system of code. We would have been a lot worse off if she hadn't spent more than a decade working on that code system and then teaching it to the male naval officers who would go out to the Pacific and then ultimately write the memoirs and get the credit.
 Mundy : It's hard even to convey what it was like. I was desperate to do it as fast as I could because I knew that I was up against an actuarial deadline -- women might be passing away as I was trying to find their phone number. I would obtain rosters with maiden names  and I had a researcher with the Washington Post helping me track down what their married names might have been and if they still had a phone number. Sometimes [the researcher] would give me a list of 12 and 11 wouldn't work or they would have passed away  but then I would call the one and leave a message and they would call me back -- or they would answer the phone.
 Mundy : When I was doing my research  I read the memoir of Virginia Gildersleeve  who was the dean of Barnard College. She was older than some of the women who served in the WAVES [the women's branch of the US Naval Reserve  better known as Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] like Wellesley's Mildred McAfee. She and others clearly saw what was an opportunity. Before the war  women's colleges had taught women math and science but they were reluctant to train very many women because they knew they couldn't get jobs. And so when the war started  they were still skeptical about putting too many women into math majors because they just worried that all of this was going to be yanked away after the war. But I also thought Virginia Gildersleeve was very crafty. She and some of the other leaders did see this as a way to try to persuade MIT and Columbia and other places to open up some more slots in graduate school for women. I was fascinated by the way they did see [code breaking and military recruitment] as an opportunity to expand opportunities for women even as they were worried that it would be temporary after the war.
 Mundy : The Army women were civilians and the Navy women weren't. And the Navy really agonized over its no-pregnancy rule  because they worried women would get abortions. And they did. But they were just so uncomfortable with the idea of a pregnant woman in uniform or a pregnant woman serving in the military that they were actually willing to force women to resign  even if they were married  when they became pregnant. It was very hard on the women who got pregnant  because they loved the work and suddenly had to leave. Obviously  men did not have to leave if their wives got pregnant. There were several women who described really being traumatized by becoming accidentally pregnant -- married women who didn't have enough information about birth control -- and having to leave this work that they loved and that they thought was so valuable. So even during the war we were willing to sacrifice female talent because we didn't know how to cope with a pregnant woman in uniform.
 Mundy : At the very beginning [of the book]  there's a letter from one of the Navy code-breaking officers that shows they didn't want Jewish women from the Seven Sisters schools  they didn't want women with family ties to occupied European countries  who might feel sympathy to European countries. The Navy was always paranoid about any sort of "unconventional" background. And when African-American women were admitted to the WAVES in 1945  they were not admitted to the code-breaking facility for that same fear of anybody who seemed like an outsider.
 Mundy : The thought that recurs to me  in addition to just being grateful to be able to try to tell this story  is the phrase "hidden figures." These women really were the hidden figures of the greatest generation.
 Mundy : I worried at the outset of this project that there wouldn't be enough information out there to tell the story. I was astonished when I went to the National Archives that although it was scattered and uneven  that there really was a great deal of material -- rosters  memos  oral histories. It had been overlooked by  I think it's fair to say  the many historians who have gone through these collections. I was surprised that there was more out there that was hiding in plain sight than I thought.

SOLUTION:
Liza Mundy