weird stuff on presidential library donor lists.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=124612&mesg_id=124612

Lieberman Wants Bush Library Donors List
by JAY ALLBRITTON
MAR 8TH 2008 4:53PM
filed under:eBush Administration, Senate
In an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News, Joe Lieberman called for George W. Bush to disclose a list of donors to his Presidential Library in an effort to "assure that an administration's decisions are not being tilted toward big-dollar presidential library donors."

Lieberman wrote:
Mr. Roosevelt raised $376,000 to build his library – about $5.2 million in today's dollars. This sum is dwarfed by the construction costs of today's libraries: H.W. Bush's cost $83 million; Bill Clinton's $165 million, and George W. Bush's could top $250 million.

Presidents begin raising these enormous sums while they are still in the White House. Disclosure of these contributors will help assure that an administration's decisions are not being tilted toward big-dollar presidential library donors.

and then this:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24800

Clinton Foundation Refuses to Reveal Donors but Sells List to Friends
by Matthew Vadum and Deborah Corey Barnes
Posted: 02/04/2008

Since leaving the White House in 2001, Bill Clinton has used philanthropy to stay in the public eye. His star power attracts widespread public attention and major donor contributions to the William J. Clinton Foundation, which supports his presidential library and funds many worthy charities. Drawing the very wealthy and the politically ambitious into his orbit, like moths to a flame, Clinton hopes to promote public policies he considers vital for America and the world—and his own new career as a philanthropic rainmaker.
And should Sen. Hillary Clinton become President, she will further boost the prospects of the Clinton Foundation. Bill Clinton’s “focus on humanitarian issues,” observes ABC News, “is in many ways the perfect balance to his wife’s political ambitions—and also repairs the damage done to his reputation by the Monica Lewinsky scandal during his presidency, helping to transform the former President’s legacy into one of an elder statesman dedicated to global issues” (“Bill Clinton’s Humanitarian Focus,” ABC News, Sept. 25, 2007).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121402124_pf.html

Clinton Library Got Funds From Abroad
Saudis Said to Have Given $10 Million
By John Solomon and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, December 15, 2007; A03

Bill Clinton's presidential library raised more than 10 percent of the cost of its $165 million facility from foreign sources, with the most generous overseas donation coming from Saudi Arabia, according to interviews yesterday.

The royal family of Saudi Arabia gave the Clinton facility in Little Rock about $10 million, roughly the same amount it gave toward the presidential library of George H.W. Bush, according to people directly familiar with the contributions.

The presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has for months faced questions about the source of the money for her husband's presidential library. During a September debate, moderator Tim Russert asked the senator whether her husband would release a donor list. Clinton said she was sure her husband would "be happy to consider that," though the former president later declined to provide a list of donors.

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