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Reagan took heat for accepting $2 million for two speeches in Japan.

Hookrider I don't think she knows that it is quite ordinary for X presidents & other exes to earn money in this manner? AND any fool could HEAR that Bill Clinton was the smartest X out there and the funniest & no doubt he probably has the best TALES ever to tell ! AND both of the CLILNTONS had left office already! Now We've Got Obama who imo is the smartest ever, hope he writes another book too, I think he's a little bit shy & we've all read that he despises politics! . .so he can make money any way he wants to do! ..while Michelle gets ready to run..

Dubya's Quiet $15 Million Payday

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He has raked in millions of dollars since leaving office by making scores of speeches that typically earn him six figures a pop.

In the week after Obama’s May 5 ground zero event, the 43rd president made time for three separate speeches to hedge-fund executives, a Swiss bank sanctioned for keeping secret bank accounts, and a pro golf event underwritten by the accounting firm involved in the Tyco International financial scandal.

Bush’s standard speaking fee is reportedly between $100,000 and $150,000.

David Sherzer, a spokesman for the former president, said that since Bush left office he has delivered nearly 140 paid talks, at home and abroad. Those speeches have earned Bush about $15 million, following in the golden path blazed by his predecessor, Bill Clinton.


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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/05/20/george-w-bushs-15-million-speech-payday.html