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123. Great post on Truman. More on Truman and then versus now

There was actually a time when Presidents didn't cash in because it would have been considered unseemly.

http://www.presidentprofiles.com/General-Information/A-History-of-the-Presidency-Salary-and-pension.html

"Harry Truman was so poor upon his return to Missouri that he had to move into his mother-inlaw's house. He hoped for some relief through the passage of a pension bill, but, for inexplicable reasons, Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House, sat on the proposal year after year. When it finally became law during the Eisenhower administration, the pension amounted to $25,000—much welcomed by Truman. The only other living ex-president was Herbert Hoover, a millionaire many times over, who had never taken a salary as president. But he accepted the pension anyway, because, he said, he did not wish to embarrass his friend, Harry Truman."