![]() ![]() Thus, the gentleman your son met would be addressed as Gov. Washington in retirement, or the plain citizen's title of "Mr." The third president preferred to be known as Mr. A former president can use a previously-held, non-unique title, as the first one did by reverting to Gen. Nevertheless, the rule is that titles pertaining to an office that only one person occupies at a time are not used after retirement. ![]() Our Founding Fathers, including the ones to whom this question applied, established American protocol to be simple and unpretentious - and thus antithetical to the modern taste. This is because we suffer from title inflation. But it comes with a warning that most people not only don't know or believe it, but turn indignant with the notion that it is disrespectful. What Miss Manners can give you is the correct information. Who should be president is a matter on which the citizens are supposed to exercise their opinions. GENTLE READER: What do you mean, "what Miss Manners thinks"? Please let me know what Miss Manners thinks is the correct way to address a former president. I have been told, also, that our ex-president likes to travel and pops up here and there, surprising people. President." Now, I am told that when he was recently interviewed on television, he was called "President Carter." Carter." One said that very close friends or former staff sometimes use "Mr. Since it had never occurred to me to teach him the proper way to address an ex-president (I didn't know myself), I promptly went to my two (perhaps outdated) etiquette books, and both of them agreed that an ex-president is addressed as "Mr." as in "Mr. He then wondered what one calls an ex-president. When he reached him, my son stood up and said, "It's an honor, Mr. Later, he was surprised to see Jimmy Carter coming down the aisle shaking hands with all the passengers. ![]()
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