What are the benefits of being the President of the United States?

Answer 1

You receive $400,000 annual salary. You and your family receive Secret Service protection for 10 years after leaving office. There is a pension and health care as well. Many of the "Benefits" of being a president have to do with fame, influence and the ability to channel donations. Most ex presidents speak widely and receive speakers fees.

The benefit and responsibilities of the actual job have to do with being in control of executive power in the United States. The Constitution of the United States actually describes a weak executive that takes his/her directives from the congress in the form of laws. Exception to this is the executive branch's power to negotiate with other countries on behalf of the United States. In a time of war, the president also becomes head of the military.

In the twentieth century, we've seen an expansion of presidential power. Some of this is brought on by the speed of our daily lives. FDR greatly expanded the offices under the executive branch both during the New Deal and in response to WWII. Much of the fiscal regulatory agencies we now see as being a liability to GW Bush were created or enhanced at this time. The largest single federal agency behind the military, The Department of Transportation, blossomed into what we have today because of the need to have people work during the depression and road and bridge building is a labor intensive enterprise.

So the actual defined benefits of being president are actually small, but the position is one defined largely by the times and by the person sitting in the chair.

Answer 2

An ex-president receives a handsome pension plus money for secretarial support.

He also has virtually unliimited opportunities to serve on boards of corporations and charitable organizations, to make paid lectures, to get books published or to serve as a visiting professor or special adviser in goverrment affairs.

Answer 3

Former Presidents get a pension, an allowance for an office, and Secret Service protection for life.

Answer 4

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