Presidential Perks

The White House is asking for more than $2.5 million in fiscal 2009 to take care of surviving presidents' needs. That doesn't include the cost of Secret Service protection, a figure the federal government no longer releases. The last available total, from fiscal 2000, was $23.7 million.

Presidential Perks

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