But what he discovered – which he wrote in his new book –citizen: My life after The white house,” published Tuesday by Knopf — is that philanthropy has allowed him to continue making changes in the world to help others.
“I had a good time doing it,” Clinton told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “I’m also grateful that a lot of people — if you go and give them a rational opinion in order to do something — will go along with it even if it doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards.” Their direct financial interest.
He pointed out Clinton Until this method opened a market for pharmaceutical manufacturers Deficiency virus HIV/AIDS, which led to lower prices pharmaceutical Enough to make it available to various countries of the world.
Low prices, now negotiated with drug manufacturers through what has come to be known as the Clinton Health Access Initiative, have helped provide HIV/AIDS drugs to nearly a million children around the world and have saved the lives of tens of millions of children. Humans.
This is one of the many successes of the Clinton Foundation — which includes the Clinton Global Initiative, which brings together leaders in politics, business and philanthropy in New York every year during UN General Assembly week — in the past two decades that Clinton wrote about in his book Citizen.
He also recounts his experiences from the former Secretary of State’s two presidential campaigns Hillary Clinton in 2008 and 2016, his role in securing the release of two North Korean journalists in 2009, and his response to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
In his book, former US President Clinton also addresses some of the controversies he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faced in the past two decades, including his meetings with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, where he said they discussed the organization (and he wrote: “I wish I had never met him”) and accusing him of not… Absolutely apologize to Monica Lewinsky, which he did in 1999, but not personally.
The bulk of the book “Citizen” focuses on Clinton’s charitable work, the people he met during this work, and how useful and successful he felt during the nearly 24 years since he left his political career, which lasted 25 years.
In response to a question about which period of his life he felt was the most effective, Clinton (78 years old) said: “I will leave that to historians to evaluate,” adding that it was like comparing two completely different things.
Clinton said: “I wanted to achieve a goal in my professional life by determining whether people were better off when I left than when I started, whether children had a brighter future, and whether we were bringing things together instead of tearing them apart.” )…So far, I think I’m doing a good job.”
Clinton added to the Associated Press that his list of things he would like to do is still long, including implementing effective climate initiatives on a larger scale and helping children enjoy better health.
Below are the interview questions and former President Clinton’s response to them:
Q: How did you develop your measure of success?
A: Once I started thinking about going into politics, I realized that I didn’t want my success to be measured by (job titles) but by, “What have I achieved?” I later learned to measure our philanthropic and political work by an accurate and honest answer to the question, “What options were available at the time?” Not everyone can be the Franklin Roosevelt of the Depression. Not everyone can be Abraham Lincoln when elected on the eve of the Battle of Fort Sumter. But everyone has time and people who live in that time to serve all people who have their stories, their money, their dreams and their fears. There are always forces that have different ideas and record results in different ways. You have to think about all of this and not become too preoccupied with what you are doing at the time, but consider whether you are doing what you think you should be doing.
Q: In addition to the billions of dollars in commitments the Clinton Global Initiative has helped organize over the years, you have helped raise $130 million for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, and millions more for the Bush-Clinton Houston Tsunami Fund and the One America Appeal ( One America) for hurricane victims in 2017. What does it mean to you to be able to raise this much funding?
A: It means a lot to me and I try to respect that by being 100 percent transparent. For example, I knew that at some point in our efforts in Haiti over the years, I would be criticized, perhaps even protested against…so we kept careful records and kept them open. When people trust you with money, you can’t guarantee success, but you can guarantee the integrity of the process and the energy behind the effort. I know that in the world we live in, you can’t always be protected from false campaigns because it’s all about politics for some people these days. But you can’t give up.
Q: You mentioned Haiti, which you discuss frankly in the book, showing what worked and what didn’t. Can you talk about why Haiti is important to you, especially when many feel the government there is unable to help?
A: I would never advise anyone to go to an area where they could be shot at and then not have the opportunity to do anything. But there are people in Haiti who are still running businesses and doing important humanitarian work. If you can figure out a way to provide them with resources and help them, you should do it because it’s easy to forget about the situation there. Haiti is so broken. The earthquake I experienced was terrible. We slowly started to come back when President (Jovenel) Moïse was in office. When he was killed and the gangs started moving in to fill the void there, I didn’t know if we would ever make it a state again. I’m still not sure what will happen.
Q: Does the election of Donald Trump make the work of the Clinton Global Initiative more important? More difficult?
A: I don’t know. Demand for the initiative’s work may increase if we (the US administration) begin to reduce foreign aid. But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. There was no partisanship in the Clinton Global Initiative. I have always had a large number of Republican supporters, including a couple who have openly supported President Trump. This does not mean that they will not interfere with the good work that saves lives. I don’t know what will happen, but I will keep working. I will continue to do what I can do as long as I can do it. We will wait and see what happens.
