NATIONAL BRIEFING / AND FINALLY...
Times Wire Reports
The direct income President Bush receives from taxpayers will be cut in half when he leaves the White House next week.
Still, he’ll receive a pension of almost $200,000 to tide him over in his first year of retirement in his new home in Dallas.
Vice President Dick Cheney also will be able to survive a prolonged recession with a pension starting at about $132,000, according to the National Taxpayers Union, a taxpayer advocacy group that follows pension issues.
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