When Downer told me he was a Hillary Clinton fan, he wasn’t kidding. It turns out that, as Australia’s foreign minister, he engineered one of the biggest donations to the Clinton Foundation. As The Hill reported, he got the Aussie government to pony up $25 million for an AIDS research project administered by the Foundation. When the deal was done—which was part of the Australian government’s $2 billion spend on foreign aid in 2006—he posed with Bill Clinton for a handshake. Both men have enormous mutual-admiration-society grins on their faces.
