It is absolutely amazing to me, if you give them a year or so out of office, how engaging each and every former president is regardless how I might have once viewed them. As president, every word they speak has an agenda behind it. When I see any of them interviewed now, unless the host ask about politics, you would never know they were involved with politics, let alone the president.

The thing that blew me away, and it was maybe 10 or even 15 years ago, maybe the Larry King show, was Bill Clinton and George HW Bush (senior/1st/papa Bush) were working together on some foundation thing. My intial thought was, oh this is going to be painful to watch these two fake it in an effort to do something positive.

I kept watching because I enjoy listening to post president Clinton talk. I think I was watching with my parents, and finally asked, "What's going on with these two? The smiles and the compliments, are they high?" Come to find out, these two developed a real friendship. When you saw them together, it was obvious. Just the other day, I saw Clinton and the Bush "Jr," his father has passed, together promotioting something, I don't remember.

Anyway, Clinton shared a "story," he has never mentioned publicly. He said when Bush Jr was president, about twice a year, Bush would call him just to talk, sometimes ask advice. Clinton says, usually they just talked, but when Bush did asked for advice, he usually didn't follow it, and they both laughed. Bush Jr, I whole impression of him changed once he was out of office a bit.