How did the Ex-Presidents and Prime Ministers look before?

Upon taking up residency in the White House, a president also assumes a tidy salary of $400,000 a year, plus extra cash for expenses. That’s certainly not the kind of change you’d find under most couch cushions, but it’s not such a princely sum that the president will be set for life when leaving office. While many leaders are either independently rich enough or old enough that they just retire after leaving office, others are desperate to make a buck or a pound.

How Ex-Presidents and Prime Ministers Make their Money

Truman received a $670,000 deal for the two-volume memoirs, but after taxes and paying his assistants, he only netted a few thousand dollars on the project.
Carter is a shockingly prolific author of over 20 books.
When the Clintons released their tax data in April as part of Hillary’s campaign disclosures, they showed income of $109 million since leaving the White House.
Margaret Thatcher remained in the House of Commons until 1992.
As an avid cricket fan, John Major served as the president of the Surrey County Cricket Club
Tony Blair’s spokesman admitted that the former Prime Minister hadn’t gotten a chance to “put pen to paper” when he signed the deal.

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