5 November 1994. 17 April 1977. Mr. Clinton is second with $231,000, followed by the younger Mr. Bush at $225,000, the CRS memo says, citing figures from the General Services Administration, which administers the 1958 Former Presidents Act.

The 39th president more than once criticized Ronald Reagan, the man who defeated him in the 1980 presidential campaign, firmly defending his own record and offering relatively barbed comments about his successor. Bush has been stumping for Republican candidates in the Mid-west this week.

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Just as Carter publicly took aim at the man who replaced him in the White House, he was also the subject of repeated and sometimes very strong criticism by Republican Gerald Ford, whom Carter had defeated in the 1976 election. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights

The original included only the phrase “First Ex President to Publicly Speak Against a Successor”: The claim, that no ex-president before Barack Obama ever publicly criticized his immediate successor is false. “He’ll be defending the worst economic policy of any president since the Depression of 1932. During a Republican rally in Omaha, Nebraska, the same week, Bush attacked Clinton for having “the nerve” to blame the GOP for “his own failures,” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette All living former presidents get an office, expenses and, in some cases, an annual pension payment, because of a 1950s-era law enacted after President Harry Truman turned out to be broke after leaving the White House. “But I must confess I have been deeply concerned by what appears to be a lack of respect for the office I was so very proud to hold.”.

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“Bill Clinton Criticizes Bush on Iraq.” The examples highlighted above are far from exhaustive but serve to illustrate that Barack Obama’s recent criticisms of President Donald Trump are far from unique or unprecedented and, especially when compared to the pronouncements of Gerald Ford, could even be argued to have been relatively tame. Stolberg, Sheryl Gay and Jeff Zeleny. JavaScript is required for full functionality on this website, but scripting is currently disabled. Speaking at the University of Illinois in September, Obama criticized Trump by name, saying he was a “symptom, not a cause” of an effort by powerful elites to engender fear and division in the face of social change and progress: Obama had declined to openly attack Trump for the first 18 months of his presidency, following what, in his University of Illinois speech, he called the “wise American tradition of ex-presidents gracefully exiting the political stage.” Obama said he had changed his mind because, in his view, the 2018 mid-term elections represented “one of those pivotal moments when every one of us, as citizens of the United States, need to determine just who it is that we are, just what it is that we stand for.”. Readers beware.

And he’s responsible.”.     The [Uniontown] Evening Standard. Bush is slated to get $942,000, while Jimmy Carter will get less than half that, at just $456,000, according to a memo prepared by the service, which was first reported by the Washington Times.