# Help me find this (28-year-old) Pat Oliphant cartoon online?

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**Created:** [December 13, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-28-year-old-pat-oliphant-cartoon-online/477027 "2008-12-13T17:58:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-28-year-old-pat-oliphant-cartoon-online/477027/1 "2008-12-13T17:58:33Z")

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I remember it clearly but my google-fu is not strong today. It was from January 1981 or thereabouts. Shows Carter and Reagan dressed as Navy captains, standing chest-deep in water on the deck of a foundering ship. Carter salutes Reagan with a smile. Caption: “Your ship, Captain!”

(Seems timely once again. 😉 )

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-28-year-old-pat-oliphant-cartoon-online/477027/2 "2008-12-14T00:50:18Z")

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> **[Oliphant's Presidents:](https://books.google.com/books?id=rFTU272ac5sC&pg=PA91&dq=oliphant%2B%22your%2Bship,%2Bcaptain%22&lr=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA50,M1)**
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> Oliphant's Presidents is a unique presentation of some of the best of this artist's work--a review of artwork dating from 1964 and spanning more than 20 years, gauging the political peaks and valleys from LBJ and Vietnam to "Tricky Dick" and...

Google Books. Since the image is copyrighted, it’s pretty hard to find.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-28-year-old-pat-oliphant-cartoon-online/477027/3 "2008-12-14T02:54:02Z")

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> [@samclem](#):
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> [Oliphant's Presidents:: Twenty-Five Years of Caricature - Wendy Wick Reaves - Google Books](http://books.google.com/books?id=rFTU272ac5sC&pg=PA91&dq=oliphant+%22your+ship,+captain%22&lr=&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA50,M1)
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> Google Books. Since the image is copyrighted, it’s pretty hard to find.

Thanx! 🙂