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Presidential salary donation precedent

Historical context of presidents donating their salaries, mentioned as a conventional presidential practice.

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Jan 27, 2026
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Which presidents besides Trump have donated all or part of their official salary and how were those donations handled?

Several presidents before chose not to personally keep their full official pay: most reliably documented are and , who donated their presidential salaries to private charities or other causes, while e...

Jan 14, 2026
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How have other presidents handled the presidential salary, and which donated it to charity versus government?

Several U.S. presidents have declined to personally keep the full statutory presidential pay, but they have not all handled the proceeds the same way: John F. Kennedy and Herbert Hoover are repeatedly...