No one could have said it better.....
      'It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya'
   brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather.'
      Harry Truman
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      After President Truman retired from office in 1952, he was left
   with an income consisting only of a U.S.Army pension, reported to have
   been just $13,507.72 a year.  Congress, noting that he was paying for
   his own stamps and  personally licking them, granted him an
   'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
   When offered corporate positions at large
   salaries, he declined, stating, 'You don't want me.  You want the
   Office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.  It belongs to
   the American people and it's not for sale.'
      Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award
   him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it,
   writing, 'I don't consider that I have done anything which should be
   the reason for any award,  Congressional or otherwise.'
      We now see that other past presidents have found a new level of
   success in cashing in on the presidency, resulting in untold wealth.
   Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy
   while enjoying the fruits of their offices.  Obviously, political
   offices are now for sale.
      Good ol' Harry Truman might well have been correct when he
   observed, 'My choice early in life was to be either a piano player in
   a whorehouse or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly
   any difference.  I, for one, believe the piano player to be much more
   honorable than current politicians.'