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| . | No place to go but down! by JAMES R WHITSON < james@presidentelect.org > posted January 10, 2001 / updated January 12, 2001 |
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| ... | . When President Clinton leaves office this month he will be younger than over half the past presidents were when they began their terms! Is he ready to retire to private life as almost every other former president did upon leaving office? From what we've learned about him the past eight years, he doesn't seem like the kind of person who'll be able to stay out of political life for long! Looking back over history, not many men who have held the world's top political job have been able to, or wanted to, take another government position. But Clinton can take heart in the fact that the only other impeached president is on this small list. (The list below may not be complete, but should be pretty close! Feel free to send in additions, corrections, or updates. This list only contains official government posts. Example of something not included: in 1994, Jimmy Carter was asked by President Clinton to head a mission to negotiate terms of departure for Haiti's de facto leaders. There are probably numerous examples of this type where a former president was asked by the government to do something in an non-political capacity. Another example of something not included: in 1993, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush announced they would serve as chairmen of a NAFTA commission. This was largely a symbolic posting and not included.)
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