SPECIAL | After being President of the United States, what comes next?
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USA TODAY
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🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Ascension to the role of President of the United States, arguably the most powerful job in the world, has to be a heady experience. But what happens when the term runs out? Stepping down from the American presidency is clearly a sizable career pivot. How do these leaders decide what’s next and what can we learn about identity and self-fulfillment from the choices they made? Bestselling author Jared Cohen joins The Excerpt to talk about “Life After Power," his new book about how seven presidents moved into the final chapter of their lives.
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| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to The Ex excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. |
| 0:14.0 | Today is Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the excerpt. |
| 0:25.0 | Ascension to the role of President of the United States, arguably the most powerful role in the world |
| 0:31.0 | in the world, has got to be a heady experience but what happens |
| 0:35.6 | when the term runs out stepping down from one of the most powerful jobs in the world is clearly |
| 0:41.3 | a sizable career pivot. How did these leaders decide what's next and |
| 0:46.2 | what can we learn about identity and self-fulfillment from the choices they made? Our |
| 0:50.8 | guest today is best-selling author, Derek Cohen, his new book, Life After Power, focuses |
| 0:57.1 | on how seven presidents moved into the final chapter of their lives. |
| 1:01.6 | Thanks for being on the excerpt, Jared. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.0 | One of the things that surprised me most in your book was the number of presidents |
| 1:09.0 | who tried to stage a comeback. What we're seeing with Donald Trump's 2024 run is nothing new. |
| 1:14.8 | With someone like former President Grover Cleveland you describe a man driven |
| 1:19.3 | by a desire to govern. Is that atypical when a defeated president decides to run again? |
| 1:26.0 | Grover, Cleveland managed to stage a comeback in 1892 and recapture the presidency. |
| 1:32.0 | Now, when he lost in 1888, very important to understand |
| 1:35.6 | Grover Cleveland never lost the popular vote. He remained popular with the |
| 1:39.0 | American people. He lost the Electoral College because he stood on principle and he basically engaged in a |
| 1:44.6 | political suicide mission to stand firm against a hike in the tariff. |
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