What Bill Clinton Should Do as First Gentleman

One of the unresolved worries about a Hillary Clinton Presidency is her husband, Bill. Some of the discomfort has to do with his past: his unfortunate history with women; the perception that donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation might have expected special access to Hillary Clinton; the discomfiting spectacle of the former President zipping around the world in various private jets, collecting exorbitant speaking fees. (Between 2001 and the launch of Hillary’s Presidential campaign, she and Bill were paid more than a hundred and fifty million dollars for speeches; we know that because the Clintons, unlike Donald Trump, disclosed their tax returns.) We can reasonably hope that, at age seventy, somewhat chastened, and living under steady scrutiny again, Bill Clinton won’t inflict the same sort of damage he once did. And, in August, he announced that, if his wife is elected, he will step down from the board of the Foundation and cease personally raising money for it. So, then, perhaps, the worry is less about the past than about the potential future. If Hillary Clinton wins the White House, what exactly is to be done with him?

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