Stories tagged with Bill Clinton
Elvis Costello plans TV variety show
By Emily Morgan | July 9, 2008 at 2:22pm | 0
Elvis Costello is bringing his talent to television.
Anne Hathaway dropped boyfriend Follieri in nick of time
By Emily Morgan | June 25, 2008 at 1:24pm | 1
Anne Hathaway’s recently dumped boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, was arrested yesterday for fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton reveals few facts and few sources
By A. James Memmott | June 4, 2008 at 12:25pm | 0
It’s been that kind of year. As the primary season is about to end, as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton could be preparing to say a graceful goodbye to the presidential race, her husband has gotten into yet another food fight.
Media and politics are in Grunwald genes
By Laurie Bennett | February 23, 2008 at 7:05am | 1
For generations of Grunwalds, media and politics have been the family business.
Mandy Grunwald is media consultant for the Hillary Clinton campaign. She has previously worked on campaigns for Bill Clinton, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Patrick Leahy.
Obama, Clintons court Gov. Bill Richardson
By Gary Jacobson | February 23, 2008 at 2:23am | 5
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who quit the presidential race Jan. 10, says Barack Obama calls him every three days or so and that about 10 supporters of Hillary Clinton call him every day.
Their goal: obtain his endorsement for president.
The New York Times calls Richardson one of the biggest prospective endorsers in the Democratic Party because he is a former candidate, Hispanic governor and a superdelegate.
Richardson tells the newspaper that he is “genuinely torn.” He says he may make an endorsement next week, or not at all.
Susie Tompkins Buell just wants to help
By A. James Memmott | February 13, 2008 at 4:50pm | 0
Millionaire Susie Tompkins Buell is a candidate’s dream, the sort of contributor who’s willing to give again and again and again.
“I get worked up and ask, ‘What can I do?’ and the first answer is always to give money,” Buell told The New York Times in 2004.
Buell is worked up again - this time over the prospect that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton might not get the Democratic presidential nomination.
Ickes helps the Clintons through a new crisis
By A. James Memmott | February 11, 2008 at 10:32am | 1
In times of real need, the Bill and Hillary Clintons turn to Harold M. Ickes.
So it’s no surprise that Ickes, the son of Harold L. Ickes, Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of the interior, is leading the effort to sew up Democrat superdelegates for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, in her bid for the Democratic nomination.
Chelsea Clinton emerges from long shadows
By A. James Memmott | February 6, 2008 at 3:00pm | 0
Like mother, like daughter.
“Her mother found her voice in New Hampshire, and Chelsea Clinton, has found hers too,” wrote Nikki Schwab of U.S. News & World Report in a story posted Tuesday on the magazine’s website.
The emergence of the 27-year-old daughter of presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, and former President Bill Clinton, as a campaign speaker represents a significant shift in the role of the former, and possibly future, first daughter.
Gore & Hyatt taking media company public
By Laurie Bennett | January 28, 2008 at 2:40pm | 0
The media company co-founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt five years ago plans to go public.
Current Media, which operates a TV network and a web site aimed at young audiences, notified the SEC of its intentions today.
Yucaipa may pay Bill Clinton $20M
By A. James Memmott | January 24, 2008 at 10:42am | 0
Democrats are quick to criticize President Bush’s handling of the economy. However, at least one top Democrat has done pretty well during the last eight years.
Former President Bill Clinton made $9.2 million in speaking fees in just his first year out of office in 2001. He later got a reported advance between $10 million and $12 million for his memoir, My Life.
All this money adds up. Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, listed their assets as between $17.4 million and $53.7 million, in the most recent report made public.
And now it appears that Bill Clinton is eligible for a $20 million payout for his relationship with a private equity firm.
