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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 205816, member: 4626&quot;]On the chance there may be more, they do finish off the last page with holes for Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr., with two more unlabeled holes for potentially two more presidents.&nbsp; They aslo include mini-bios of presidents they may or may not get a coin from this program up to and including Bush Jr.&nbsp; (At the time the album was printed Ford was still alive and it was only certain to go up to Nixon.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The program will run to at least 2016... as of today they know&nbsp; it will at least honor every president up to and including Ford.&nbsp; For Reagan, depends how you interpret the law; some say that if it gets to Carter and he&#039;s still alive (or has been dead less than 2 years) the program just ends there so as not to honor Reagan out of order, that a non-qualified president can&#039;t be skipped to honor the next president even if he qualifies; others interpret the law as saying that Carter could be skipped so as to honor Reagan who would qualify at the time (US Today reported the first interpretation as being that of a representative of the Mint.)&nbsp; Of course if Carter dies between now and 2014 it&#039;s a moot point, and Carter and Reagan will get coins in 2016.&nbsp; Should both Carter die by 2014 and Bush Sr. die by 2015, Bush Sr. will get one in 2017 (quite likely, since both turn 83 this year; only 4 presidents have ever made it past age 90.)&nbsp; Highly unlikely Clinton, Bush Jr., or any future presidents will get a coin before the series ends.&nbsp; If the series ends with presidents still not honored, it would literally take another act of Congress to honor any of them later.</p><p><br /></p><p>On a side note with the gold First Lady series, a first lady is honored the same time the president she was married to is honored, even if she happens to still be alive (though it is doubtful any of the living former first ladies whose husbands are no longer alive will still be alive by then anyway; all are over 80 and won&#039;t be honored for at least another 8 years; Lady Bird Johnson won&#039;t get a coin until 2015, Betty Ford 2016, and Nancy Reagan potentially also in 2016.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Everry time I think about the presidential series, it reminds me of the Simpsons song, which I am now putting in my sig lol... though eventually it will no longer be true...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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