That alone makes me believe getting only $1 is nothing but a publicity stunt: a x00.000 salary should be only a rounding error to the returns of a fortune between 5 and 10 billion.

Most of our founding fathers were wealthy. They took unpaid time off from their real occupations in order to serve the country. This was back in the day when there was no such thing as a career politician. Why has this become such a bad thing?