I mean who knew? Ford a cheapskate,Carter just your basic paranoid asshole,who was too good for the little people.Secret Service knows....

....IN CONTRAST TO Richard Nixon, Secret Service agents found Gerald Ford-codenamed Passkey-to be a decent man who valued their service. But agents were amazed at how cheap Ford was. After he left the White House, "He would want his newspaper in the morning at hotels, and he'd walk to the counter," says an agent on his detail. "Lo and behold, he would not have any money on him. If his staff wasn't with him, he would ask agents for money."

The agent remembers Ford checking in at the chic Pierre hotel in New York. A bellboy loaded his cart with the Fords' bags and took them into their room.

"After the bellboy was through, he came out holding this one-dollar bill in front of him, swearing in Spanish," the former agent says.

At Rancho Mirage, where Ford lived after leaving the White House, "You'd go to a golf course, and it's an exclusive country club, and the normal tip for a caddy is twenty-five dollars to fifty dollars," another agent says. "Ford tipped a dollar, if at all."
https://exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com/2019/09/part-2-in-presidents-secret.html