{"id":14591,"date":"2012-01-25T12:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2012-01-25T12:35:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T17:35:04","slug":"the-richest-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=14591","title":{"rendered":"The Richest President"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/114722'>According to an analysis<\/a> by 24\/7 Wall Street, a handful of US presidents were multi-millionaires, while another handful went bankrupt. When Abe Lincoln died, he owned little more than his single-family home in Illinois. When Herbert Hoover, who presided over the last Great Depression, took office, he was worth about $75 million. (Hoover donated his presidential salary to charity).<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s a little tidbit for you: The wealthiest president in history was good ol\u2019 George Washington himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to the 24\/7 Wall Street report, the Father of Our Country was worth about $525 million in 2010 dollars \u2013 that\u2019s almost twice Romney\u2019s net worth for those of you counting \u2013 and is listed among the 100 richest people ever, in relative economic terms. (His wife Martha inherited significant property.) And what\u2019s more? Washington\u2019s presidential salary was equal to 2 percent of the total US budget in 1789. If Mitt, or Newt, or Barack, or anyone else were to make that same ratio, their annual paycheck next year would arrive to tune of $7.7 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Romney's still a tool though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an analysis by 24\/7 Wall Street, a handful of US presidents were multi-millionaires, while another handful went bankrupt. When Abe Lincoln died, he owned little more than his single-family home in Illinois. When Herbert Hoover, who presided over the last Great Depression, took office, he was worth about $75 million. (Hoover donated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}