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Secrets of the Presidents Club: How Bill Clinton Learned to Salute

A Presidential Hangout: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Clubhouse

Book Excerpt: Inside the Presidents Club

How the World's Most Exclusive Club Was Created

Video: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy on The Presidents Club

Friends and Exes: JFK's Republican Allies

What Obama Sees in Reagan

Video: The Presidents Club on Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

Beach Force One
Only Presidents know how much a President needs a vacation

The Faith Factor
Just how devout do Americans want their president to be?

Judge a Presidency By Its Crises Avoided
How Presidents consider the alternative reality in order to keep bad things from getting worse

President of the United States: The Loneliest Job
Obama is not the first President to find out how hard it is to make — or keep — friends in the White House

Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush?
When "Hail to the Chief" stops playing, most former leaders of the free world learn to sing a new tune

How Presidents Pass the Torch
The Bush-Obama handover has been notably civil. (F.D.R. considered his predecessor a fat capon)