Talk’s Not Cheap: Bush Reportedly Getting $100,000
Last year, former President George Bush probably made the equivalent of a speech a day and received $200,000 in salary for his efforts.
Today, Bush is to receive half that amount--$100,000--for a single speech to a convention of Amway distributors in Atlanta, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Bush’s reported fee--his office and Amway representatives declined to comment--appears to set something of a record for former presidents in the largest-fee-for-a-single-speech category.
Former President Ronald Reagan received about $2 million from Fuhisankei Corp. for his trip to Japan in October, 1989, but he delivered two 20-minute speeches and made other appearances during his weeklong visit.
Pete Zeph, an account executive at Capital Speakers Inc., said he did not know of another fee that large for a single speech.
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