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Article: Funding Clinton's Legacy: The quiet effort to raise millions for a presidential library.(Nation)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- October 18, 1999
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On the president's official schedule, the meetings are cryptically listed as "private events." In restaurants and hotel suites, surrounded by his most faithful and wealthiest supporters, Bill Clinton is quietly raising money for the project most important to him: the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library.
For the president, frustrated by countless scandals over the years, the library that will bear his name has taken on a special urgency. It is, at last, something he can control. Clinton envisions the museum and public-policy center, to be built along the banks of the Arkansas River in Little Rock, as a place that will preserve the legacy he believes he ...