Download or read book Former presidents office and security costs and other information written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report responds to your request of March 20, 2001, that we update and expand on the work we reported on in 1988, concerning costs borne by the federal government associated with former presidents and their dependents. 1 In addition to updating the information contained in that report, you also asked for additional information concerning the offices of former presidents.
Download or read book Former Presidents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Former Presidents written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fiscal years 1977 through 2000, the federal government paid about $370 million to support former presidents and their families. As of June 2001, the offices of the five living former presidents ranged in size from 3,300 to 5,900 square feet. The General Services Administration (GSA) is authorized to provide each former president with suitable office space appropriately furnished and equipped at a location specified by the former president. The law does not, however, provide any guidance on the appropriate amount of space that is to be provided. For fiscal year 2000, GSA's rent charged to former President Bush was $144,000, former President Carter $89,283, former President Ford $105,099, and former President Reagan $256,671. Former President Clinton's office was not finished until late August 2001. His annual rent payment to GSA for fiscal year 2002 is estimated to be about $354,000. The federal government is paying the entire lease cost for all of the former presidents' offices, according to GSA officials. The rental rates GSA has paid for former presidents' offices are generally comparable to rents paid for similar properties in the same areas. The Carter Presidential Center has provided additional space for President Carter's use at no cost to the government. The Secret Service maintains space close to each of the former presidents' offices and pays rent to GSA for that space. The office staffs of former presidents ranged from six to 19 persons, including paid staff, volunteers, and interns. In addition to receiving federal compensation, most paid staff members also receive compensation from other sources. According to representatives of each former president, the staff is not involved with political fund-raising activities. To varying degrees, foundations associated with each former president are involved with the office operations. Although the foundations themselves do not pay any portion of the office rent, they do supply some furniture and equipment.
Download or read book Former Presidents written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-01-983 Former Presidents: Office and Security Costs and Other Information
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Download or read book Costs Associated with Former Presidents and Their Dependents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Former Presidents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Costs Associated with Former Presidents and Their Dependents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a legislative requirement, GAO analyzed federal expenditures associated with former presidents and their dependents. Former presidents are eligible for various benefits including pensions, staff allowances, office space and expenses, free mailing privileges, travel expenses, and lifetime Secret Service protection. Their minor dependent children and surviving spouses are eligible for pensions, mailing privileges, and protection. Applicable laws also authorize federal expenditures for the establishment and operation of presidential libraries. GAO found that: (1) total costs associated with former presidents have increased by 278 percent since 1975; (2) cost growth after inflation totalled about 165 percent from 1975 to 1984; and (3) cost increases were primarily attributable to inflation and increases in pension allowances, the number of eligible recipients, and the number of operational presidential libraries.
Download or read book Former Presidents written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congressional enactment of the Former Presidents Act (FPA) in 1958 provided the first pensions for former Presidents and their widows, and authorized the General Services Administration (GSA) to provide office and staffing assistance for former Presidents. [...] President William Howard Taft publicly declined to become the first beneficiary of Carnegie's former President's pension fund when he left office in 1913.9 At the time, some believed that Carnegie's proposal was intended to bring to the attention of Congress and the general public the financial difficulties that some former Presidents faced after leaving federal office.10 By the end of the 19th. [...] It would also have provided an annual pension of $5,000 for the unmarried widows of former Presidents.13 In view of former President Harry S. Truman's financial limitations in hiring an office staff to handle his mail and the requests for speeches once he left the White House, the Senate introduced legislation in 1955 to provide retirement benefits to former Presidents.14. [...] In 1971, the Former Presidents Act was amended to make the lifetime pension of a former President equal to the rate of pay of the head of an executive department (Executive Level I), with annual pay adjustments.34. [...] Nixon clearly meets the statutory definition of a former President.36 In 1971, the FPA was amended to provide the widow of a former President a $20,000 taxable annual pension, to be paid monthly by the Secretary of the Treasury.37.
Download or read book Crs Report for Congress written by Congressional Research Service: The Libr and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Former Presidents Act (FPA; 3 U.S.C. i 1/2 102 note) charges the General Services Administration (GSA) with providing former Presidents a pension, support staff, office support, travel funds, and mailing privileges. The FPA was enacted to "maintain the dignity" of the Office of the President by giving a former President -- and his or her spouse -- certain benefits so that he would not have to enter unsuitable occupations after leaving office. Former Presidents currently receive a pension that is equal to pay for the head of an executive department (Executive Level I), which was $191,300 as of January 1, 2008. The FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act allocated $2,478,000 for pensions and GSA assistance to former Presidents. The President's FY2009 budget requested $2,934,000 for expenditures for former Presidents. Pending House and Senate appropriations legislation recommends the requested amount. Prior to 1958, former Presidents leaving office received no pension or federal assistance. After leaving office, some former Presidents -- including Ulysses S. Grant and Harry S Truman -- struggled financially. In 1912, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie unveiled a plan to pay $25,000 pensions to all future former Presidents and their widows. The pensions were to be funded by the Carnegie Foundation .
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Download or read book Treasury Postal Service and general government appropriations for fiscal year 2003 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Second Acts written by Mark Updegrove and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "There are no second acts in American lives", but more and more, our former presidents are proving him wrong. No longer fading into the background upon leaving the highest office in the land, ex-presidents perform valuable services as elder statesmen and international emissaries - and by pursuing their own agendas. From Eisenhower taking Kennedy to the woodshed (literally) on the Bay of Pigs crisis, to Carter earning the Nobel Peace Prize, to Bush Sr. and Clinton joining forces in an unlikely partnership for tsunami and Hurricane Katrina relief, the author examines the increasingly important roles that former presidents assume in our nation and throughout the world. Through interviews with former presidents, first ladies, family members, friends, and staffers, the author also delves into the very human stories that play out as the modern ex-presidents - from Truman to Clinton - adjust to life after the White House and attempt to shape their historical legacies. In this, the first narrative history of the modern post-presidency, Mark K. Updegrove makes a refreshingly unique contribution to literature on the American presidents.
