[xp38]

Here is a link to an estimate of running the white house which puts the tag at around 1.5 billion for the year 2008. You can see estimate for air force one is 200 million and the helicopters an additional 271 million. I like item number 10 which is listed as the Presidents unanticipated needs and is pegged at a 1 million.

http://theintrepid.blogspot.ca/2008/11/how-much-does-it-cost-to-operate-white.html

[Slyfox]

Here is an image of Ulysses S. Grant as he is suffering from the last stages of cancer, writing his memoirs so that the sale of which might help his family since what he got from his days being president would not help his wife.

Kinda makes Obama look like a chump, don't it?