Life After the Oval Office: Orange Juice and Security
What does life actually look like after the Oval Office? Starting from a listener's question about whether former presidents can ever do ordinary things again, we trace the real architecture of the post-presidency: the Former Presidents Act of 1958, the lifetime Secret Service guarantee that's only thirteen years old, and the 36 protectees behind a $3.2 billion agency. Then we look at three very different models — Carter's forty-three-year return to Plains inside a permanent perimeter, Bush's deliberate quiet and daily painting, and Obama's curated public life — and ask why almost no one ever…
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