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In reply to the discussion: "I am the only President on record to give up my yearly $400,000 plus Presidential Salary!" [View all]tetedur
(815 posts)10. This is not true, of course. John F. Kennedy didn't get a presidential salary.
When President Kennedy took office in 1961, he was a very wealthy man. His familys worth was around $1 billion at the time, and he himself had a multimillion-dollar trust fund. He certainly didnt need the presidential salary ($100,000 annually with a $50,000 expense account, at the time) to get by. So, he donated it all to charity instead.
https://www.payscale.com/career-news/2016/08/presidential-salary-stories
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jayfish
Sep 2020
OP
He banks many multiples of that just by requiring Secret Service to stay at his properties
greenjar_01
Sep 2020
#12
He's probably the only president on record to have pocketed US taxpayer money for his golf trips
mnhtnbb
Sep 2020
#14