I hear stories that JFK refused his presidential salary.
Yes? No?
If yes, why?
I hear stories that JFK refused his presidential salary.
Yes? No?
If yes, why?
No he didn’t.
. . . Cite?
You really think there is a cite that says he accepted his salary?
You can prove a positive but you can’t prove a negative. Having said that according to http://www.jfk-online.com/farewell03.html#N_8_ it states
How about this? (It’s the Internet Public Library Kid’s Encyclopedia entry for JFK.)
http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/potus/jfkennedy.html
Looks like he accepted his salary but refused the expense account.
Sorry, perhaps I spoke too soon. Here’s a CNN story on Congress’s considering a presidential pay raise (from May, 1999). http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/24/pay.raise/
Last paragraph:
So maybe he refused his salary as well.
OK, so perhaps I’m posting too soon. I’m going to stop after this one. I just found something that perhaps contradicts the CNN story (though not on whether JFK accepted/refused salary).
This site – http://www.russpickett.com/ushist/uspres4.htm – asserts that Hoover was the first president to “donate his salary to charity.” Of course, it could be that he just did it one time, and otherwise accepted his salary. This could then be consistent w/ the CNN story.
Used to be that some rich men who served the government would elect to receive $1.00 for their service. Haven’t heard of that being done for many years, now.
In Texas, we do not pay state taxes. At least not from income.