![]() Or as the prayer of confession puts it, presidents often leave office haunted by what they have done and what they left undone. “We all have sorrows,” as Jimmy Carter told me. ![]() Some take up painting some lean into atonement. Most ex-presidents enter post Oval life bearing scars and regrets. When Franklin Roosevelt announced a bank holiday immediately after his inauguration, Hoover declared he should “receive the whole-hearted support of every citizen.” A decade later, when 100 million people in Europe were at risk of starving, Harry Truman enlisted Hoover’s help managing post-war relief together they probably saved more lives than any two figures of the 20th– century. Hoover not only respected the presidency, he honored it in his post-presidency. ![]() Except it was not Trump Tower but the Waldorf-Astoria and the ex-president was Herbert Hoover.īut in this case, history neither repeats itself nor rhymes. Relentless, bitter, appalled at his Democratic successor, he stews in his elegant midtown Manhattan suite, plotting his next move. ![]() There are rumors he was under surveillance or about to be arrested. An independently wealthy Republican president is tossed out of office after a single term amid massive economic hardship and fears of political violence. ![]()
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