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Former Presidents: They're Just Like Us! Obama Summoned For Jury Duty

There are plenty of perks to being a former U.S. president: a lifetime salary, a secret service entourage, and office facilities provided on the tax payers' dollar. Avoiding jury duty, however, is not one of them.

"We have a system in Cook County where one serves one time a year on the jury, and that time has arrived for President Barack Obama," the county's Chief Judge Tim Evans told NPR Saturday in a phone interview. Judge Evans wasn't willing to disclose the exact date or location of Obama's service, but he did confirm that the former president will be serving in Cook County in the month of November.

Obama will receive the same salary as any other juror — $17.25 for each day he serves — a bit of a pay cut for someone who has reportedly earned $400,000 for a single speech to a Wall Street firm.