Life after the Presidency

Presidents continue to enjoy benefits after leaving office such as free mailing privileges, free office space, the right to hold a diplomatic passport and budgets for office help and staff assistance. However, it was not until after Harry S. Truman (1958) that Presidents received a pension after they left office. Additionally, since the presidency of Herbert Hoover, Presidents receive funding from the National Archives and Records Administration upon leaving office to establish their own presidential library. These are not traditional libraries, but rather repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, and other historical materials for each President since Herbert Hoover.

After a president of the U.S. leaves office, the title "President" continues to be applied to that person for the rest of his life. Former presidents continue to be important national figures, and in some cases go on to successful post-presidential careers.

Ø Every U.S. President from William Henry Harrison to John F. Kennedy who was elected or re-elected in a year divisible by 20 died in office, many by assassination. Ronald Reagan (elected in 1980) survived an attempt on his life and George W. Bush (elected in 2000) has so far suffered no similar misfortune.

Ø One President resigned from office: Richard Nixon in 1974

Ø Two Presidents have been impeached, though neither was subsequently convicted: Andrew Johnson in 1868, Bill Clinton in 1999

Ø Four Presidents have been elected without a plurality of popular votes: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes - 1876, Benjamin Harrison – 1888, George W. Bush - 2000 election.

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Ø Eleven Presidents have been elected fourteen times without a majority of popular votes (but with a plurality of popular votes):

Ø All presidents have been white males and nominally Christian (mostly Protestant). Most presidents have been of substantially British descent, but there have been a few who came from a different background:

o Predominantly Dutch: Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt had Dutch names, neither was predominantly Dutch; each had only one Dutch grandfather.

o Predominantly German: Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower

o Predominantly Irish:William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton

o Kennedy was also America's only Roman Catholic president.

o Franklin D Roosevelt is the only President to have had a serious physical disability.

o Historical rankings of U.S. Presidents by academic historians usually regard three Presidents — in chronological order, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt — to be the three most successful presidents by a wide margin.

o The Secret Service and some agencies in the government use acronyms as jargon. Since the Truman Administration the President of the United States has been called POTUS, pronounced /poʊtʊs/. The wife of the President, traditionally referred to as the First Lady is called FLOTUS, pronounced /floʊtʊs/. The Vice President of the United States is often abbreviated to VPOTUS, pronounced /vipoʊtʊs/.

United States presidential election

United States presidential elections determine who serves as President and Vice President of the United States for four-year terms, starting on Inauguration Day, which is January 20th of the year after the election.

The most recent election occurred on November 2, 2004. The next election is scheduled for November 4, 2008.

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