Out of the limelight

After President Bush steps down and passes  the torch onto Obama, he will be out of the limelight and public speculation.  He will fall in line with all the previous presidents and will just be a memory. 

“The first year for every ex-president is really hard,” said David Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University. “You have to raise all this money for your library, you’ve got to build an organization, you have to write a huge memoir, your papers are in disarray, and you suddenly realize your mistakes because your pace slows down.”