How do U.S. presidents support themselves after serving their term(s)? Can they run for another office?
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Presidents currently receive a pension of $157,000.00 per year.  Add to that Secret Service protection, office space and secretarial support and the final tab is closer to $2.5 million per year.\n\nA two-term President could serve in any other elective office except President.\n\nOne ex-President, William Howard Taft, served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.\n\nTheir status as "Elder Statesmen" offers former Presidents significant opportunities as consultants and public speakers as well, though it's hard to imagine our current occupant of the Oval Office making any headway in that manner once he's out of office in 2009.  Guess there's always The Comedy Channel...
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As some people have said, if a vice president were to take over at least two years in the presidency, they can run for election twice. So if a vice president were to serve for 2 years as President (due to an assassination or resignation, etc) then he can run for another two terms (8 years)\n\n2 + 8 = 10 years\n\nPossible, but improbable.
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Well the basic requirements are:\n\n1. Be 35 years old.\n2. Have lived in the country for at least 15 years.\n3. Be a US Citizen.\n\nOther than that, it helps to have had some government experience. Most presidents come from the Senate or have been Governor of a state. It helps to have been political for a number of year, the more the better.\n\nThe last two requirements are more difficult. You have to be popular within your party, have great ideas and know how to implement them. You also need to be financially independent to some extent. Most presidential campaigns are funded by a combination of contributions and personal wealth.
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You're going to do it?  Good luck!  The last 12 President's haven't been able to do it; maybe it's time for a new type of President.  Someone who's not a career politician.
486503
I think all presidents get tired after a number of years in office.  If you look at Bill Clinton when he went in and how he looked when he left, you can see a lot of the years on his face.
16305
Yes. A president can serve a maximum of two 4 year terms. Originally, this wasn't the case, a president could serve as many terms as he wanted. This changed when the 22nd amendment was ratified, limiting the President to 2 terms. \n\n"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"
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I was asking the same question near the end of Bush Sr's term... things are worse now, than they were then, but I have faith that a good leader can turn things around....\nthere could be problems if a good leader isn't elected...
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No he cannot.  After FDRs death in 1945.  The house and Senate passed a amendment limiting the time a person can be president.  8 Years if elected or 10 Years if the person was a vice president and the president died two years into the term and then the person ran for election.
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NO HE CANNOT.  \n\nThe Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution reads:\n\n"no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."\n\nNow, it may not be as cut-and-dried as it looks.  The 25th Amendment says that a 2-term President ineligible to be *elected* again ... but it doesn't explicitely say that he is inelligible to *be* President again (i.e. if he were in the line of succession).  So he may not be disqualified from being Vice-President.  However, most constitutional scholars agree that the intent is to disqualify a third-term President by any means.  It is amazing to me that people who draft Amendments don't fix the wording so these things are completely unambiguous.\n\nInteresting Trivia:  Before the 12th Amendment (1804), the Vice-President was the second-place finisher in the Presidential election ... so the President and Vice-President were invariably from opposite parties.
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Sure, but first you have to convince the entire electorate not to support them. Incumbents typically have an 80%- 90% re-election rate.\n\nGood luck.
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No, he cannot.  A President, as far as anyone knows, CAN be Vice President after he serves two terms as President.  However, if the President would step down or die in office, the Vice President could NOT serve as President, since he has reached his Constitutional limit.
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Yes he can.. Andrew Johnson was elected to the Senate after his term was over, and John Quincy Adams served in the House of Representatives. Usually however they don't.. if they serve 2 terms they usually retire and we pay for them to live in the lap of luxury the rest of their life :)
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The total number of years a person can serve as president is 10.  Example:  Say President Bush is unable to serve the remaining 2 years of his presidency (after January 20, 2007) Vice President Cheney would serve the remaining time of President Bush's term.  Then Vice President Cheney could serve 2 full four-year terms.
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Yes he can, but chances are that he won't even try.  Once you've lost the presidential primary, your chances of ever winning the office are very slim.
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Bush did not run in this Election. It was not a Presidential election.  He cannot run in the next Presidential, because he is limited to 2 terms in office, and he is in his 2nd term now.
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YES YOU ARE ALLOWED ONLY TWO TERMS IN OFFICE AND THERE IS NO LAW STATING THAT THEY HAVE TO BE BACK TO BACK. BUT ONCE THOSE TWO ARE COMPLETE THEN YOUR WHITE HOUSE DAYS ARE OVER. AN EX PRESIDENT FOR INSTANCE CLINTON COULD NOT RUN AS THE VICE PRESIDENT WITH HIS WIFE IF SHE RUNS IN 08 BECAUSE IF SHE DIED THEN HE WOULD BECOME PRESIDENT IE BREAKING THE TERM LIMIT LAW.
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but you'd run out of candidates very quickly. There are usually only 3-5 former prezes alive at a time, and often 2-3 of those are too old/ill to serve.