Earlier this year he said in interviews that he intended to retire himself, from his Sunday show, "Face the Nation," after the inauguration of the next president.
Although Cormier considers himself retired from professional wrestling, he continues to compete from time to time.
Stewart himself retired from racing 30 years ago next week after winning a then-record 27 grands prix.
The man himself retired from UEA in 1995, but Andrew Motion, the Poet Laureate, replaced him as professor of creative writing, and the course has been expanded to include programmes in scriptwriting and poetry.
He is 81 now and frail, and considers himself retired from film work, other than a small role with his daughter Marie in the 2003 film "Janis et John".
Hardy still maintains a tattoo shop in California, where his son, Doug, carries on the family skin-marking tradition, but he has since retired from tattooing himself, spending his days on his own non-tattoo artwork.
Emanuel Ungaro himself, who retired from the label in 2004, pronounced himself "furious" at what had become of the house bearing his name.
But I've been chatting to a man who introduced himself as "retired Mike", from Chicago.
When Hyde retired from Guildhall Library, he himself spoke about a semi-retirement.
But his children have long graduated from school, and Mr. Gilchrist himself is retired from Columbia University, where he was responsible for its internal computing system.
