When announcing his presidential candidacy in a New York World interview on April 3, 1900, Admiral George Dewey asserted that the job of chief executive was easy: the president just had to make sure that laws passed by Congress were enforced. That and similar remarks demonstrated the admiral’s naïveté about politics and government, and had him a laughingstock among politicians and the press. One example of the press satire was humorist Peter Finley Dunne’s “Mr. Dooley: On Admiral Dewey’s Candidacy,” which was published in the April 21, 1900 issue of Harper’s Weekly.