When Calvin Coolidge decided to retire, he announced it with the terse message, “I do not choose to run for President in 1928.” He was on a fishing vacation at the time; Coolidge had spent much of his presidency fishing while things took care of themselves (or Andrew Mellon took care of them). So Pittsburgh cartoonist Cy Hungerford, whose seventy-year career included fifty years at the Post-Gazette, produced this cartoon, which conveys very well why a president might not want to run for reelection.

Our friend Father Pitt put some effort into restoring this image, which was found in a microfilm copy of the newspaper.