What to expect from the Obamas post-White House

The Obamas will remain in Washington D.C. until Sasha Obama finishes high school in 2019. Barack Obama, at age 55, is the one of the youngest ex-presidents in America’s history, along with Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Bill Clinton.

“I was super excited because he was the first black president,” senior Valizia Collado said. “I remember we had a party because he won.”

In civilian life, past presidents either live quiet lives away from the limelight, such as George W. Bush who took up watercolor painting and focused on developing his presidential library, or continue on a life of civil service such as Bill Clinton, who started a foundation for global healthcare, education, developmental arms and climate change.

“I think he is going to be spending a lot of time with his family because they’re really important to him,” junior Delaney Richman said.

According to a Time article, Obama is expected to get back into the social justice issues that drove him into civil service early in his life. He has the opportunity to make tens of millions of dollars simply by delivering speeches and is expected to write his fourth book, a memoir that could rival Bill Clinton’s My Life, which has amassed $15 million in profits. In light of rumors that Obama might be interested in becoming a Supreme Court Justice, aides report that he sticks by a 2014 comment he made turning down the possible monastic lifestyle of a Justice.

“It would be great to have him as one of the Supreme Court justices because it would put court cases at more of a left-wing side,” Richman said.

Civilian life for ex-presidents is historically seen as the time to polish one’s legacy, as demonstrated by the billion dollar behemoth of the Clinton Foundation. The Obama Foundation is set on building his presidential library in Chicago along with all the programs that expand from it. The Obama Foundation’s tentative objectives might be advocacy for the Affordable Care Act, climate change efforts and foreign policy, including defending the Iran Nuclear Deal and a rekindling of relations with Cuba.

During Obama’s first term as president, there was little talk from the White House of racial tensions, however in 2013 after the Trayvon Martin case–where a neighborhood watch shot and killed an unarmed black teenager–Obama reported during a press conference his recounts of being followed in department stores and hearing car doors locked as he passed by as a teenager.

“I think he did alright,” Richman said. “[Racial tension] is a hard thing to handle. I’m sure there’s somehow a better way to handle it, but I don’t think anyone has figured it out yet.”

In his second term, Obama was more outspoken about systematic racism and jump-started the nonprofit, My Brother’s Keeper, a mentoring program for young men of color. He plans to play a more substantial role in the organization. Obama is also said to take a more consequential position in his other nonprofit, Organizing for Change, which focuses on climate change and immigration reform