It’s well documented that Bill Clinton has leveraged his White House years into a post-presidency windfall. Moreover, under the Former Presidents Act the feds have provided the former president with nearly $8 million in support. That’s roughly the same amount over the same period of time as provided to former presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush combined.
There’s nothing illegal, of course, about it. Although it is at odds with a rather quaint concept expressed by Harry Truman on the way out of the Oval Office. “I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency,” noted Truman.
Just another reason that Harry S. gets better by the year.