This piece reminds immediately of Taft, "the first to use the Presidency to climb to the Supreme Court", or the very active political life of John Quincy Adams

This piece reminds immediately of Taft, "the first to use the Presidency to climb to the Supreme Court", or the very active political life of John Quincy Adams after his mandate. But it is an interesting and nice perspective in general - "even more after the top", or "substantive top after the formal top". Whatever that "top" may be.