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The construction of Ronald Reagan’s postpresidential image is a prime example of this process.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

When Barack and Michelle Obama founded their production company Higher Ground in 2018, the notion of a postpresidential portfolio built around culture-making seemed both a canny innovation and a comfortable fit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

The interlocutors include Abigail Adams, George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass and, finally, Abraham Lincoln, with whom Adams briefly overlapped in his postpresidential years in Congress.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2020

In his postpresidential life, Mr. Ilves has become a vigorous evangelist for Estonia’s brand of digital governance, pressing the model on anyone who’ll listen—including committees of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2017

Maybe in becoming postideological, America has become almost postpresidential as well.

From Time Magazine Archive