Here's the story. The Clinton Library cost $200 million to build making the other 11 Presidential libraries looking a bit on the frugal side. This makes Bill Clinton's presidential library the most expensive in presidential history. And, oh, the Clinton Library is built in the flood zone right along a river in Arkansas.
Yet, people protecting Bill Clinton will not divulge the donor’s list of those who donated money to the library's construction effort.
Any demand for a list of our donors would be flagrantly violative of the First Amendment and we would resist it. – David Kendall, Clinton foundation attorney, 2001.
Now, let’s put things into perspective here. How did Clinton come up with $200 million dollars considering that both Bill Clinton and George Bush 41 raised $100 million for the tsunami relief fund? They were doing Public Service Announcements, got themselves on Larry King Live, went onto other shows, and doing golf tourneys where you can play one hole out of 18 hole round with those two former presidents for something like $30,000. Don’t you find it a bit odd that Clinton was able to hit up for $200 million but could only must $100 million with George Bush’ help? Was Bill Clinton down on his knees kissing the Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's rear end?
Or perhaps was it from very, very rich people that President Clinton pardoned back in 2001 right before he left office.
The former wife of the fugitive financier controversially pardoned by President Clinton on his last day in office had donated $450,000 to his presidential library fund, according to reports in Washington.
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The pardon freed one of the world's richest men from prosecution on more than 50 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, income tax evasion and illegal oil trading with Iran.
Der slick Willy has been attempting (and continues to do so) at evading the truth and rewriting history as much as he can so he can look good right before he dies of old age. A false legacy is his dream.
But the blue-stained dressed spattered with your semen on Lewinsky's dress isn’t going to go away, Bill. Oh, yeah, you're not going to add that historical note in your Clinton Library, will you Bill?
There are two million photographs in the new Clinton presidential library. Not one of them is of Monica Lewinsky.
The name of the woman at the centre of Bill Clinton's impeachment trial appears only twice in 80 million documents.
Her face can be glimpsed only once, briefly, in a video of Mr Clinton greeting supporters. But the last, critical scene, where he reaches over the rope to hug her, has been cut.
Mr Clinton's decision to practically erase Ms Lewinsky from his history was the subject of controversy when the library in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday. Library director David Alsobrook acknowledged that many wouldn't be satisfied.
"His supporters will say, 'Oh, why did you give this so much space?' " Mr Alsobrook said. "But his detractors will come up and say, 'Dave, where is the blue dress?' "
The dress refers to a frock Ms Lewinsky wore during one of her trysts with Mr Clinton. Stained with semen, it provided irrefutable DNA evidence of an affair.
The dress was returned to Ms Lewinsky after Mr Clinton's impeachment trial. She said she was going to burn it. Instead of the dress, visitors can see three of Mr Clinton's saxophones, an armoured Cadillac limousine he used to drive around in, and his stuffed cat, Socks
Of course not. You wouldn't want to ruin your legacy with that stain of yours in your Presidential library.
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