There are few jobs that sound as appealing as former American president. You get to write a book that’s all but assured to be a bestseller, pull in big paychecks from paid speeches, and away from the White House and the day-to-day of partisan politics, people tend to like you a lot more. “The standard operating procedure when a president leaves office is that they typically disappear from the public domain, at least for a while,” said Russell Riley, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia Miller Center.
Russell Riley
