Films! Novels! Springsteen! The Obamas and Clintons seem to be having the time of their lives
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By Karen Heller
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Washington: Former presidents long slipped into a life soaked in sepia. They farmed on bucolic homesteads with graceful names. They golfed. Eventually, inking memoirs became standard post-presidency practice, sometimes because they needed money, odd as that seems today.
“There is nothing more pathetic in life than a former president,” said John Quincy Adams, who went on to serve in the US House for almost two decades after the White House.
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