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Clinton’s Charitable Foundation: The Real Story

Sep 16, 2016
by Caroline Miller
Clinton Charitable Foundation, Hillary Clinton, politics and money.
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In politics, people want access to their elected officials but when they get it, others are tempted to wonder what goes on behind closed doors.  As a former public servant, I am aware  of the opportunity for distrust.  When I served, everyone wanted to see me, it seemed.  If they made a donation to my campaign, they expected to see me.  Their feelings of entitlement sometimes were awe-inspiring.  They imagined a $50 check meant I was required to find a summer job for their pimply offspring.

How do I define diplomacy?  It’s wriggling out of a perceived obligation without providing insult.

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Avoiding requests from contributors is more difficult than running naked through a tropical forest without attracting tics.  Frankly, the sound and fury surrounding the Clintons’ charitable foundation amazes me.  While she served as Secretary of State, few to those  big charity contributors received so much as a handshake from her.  That’s integrity.  And that’s the real story.

I may have been corrupted by my political service, but I see nothing shocking about people, rich or poor, wanting to talk to public officials.   I wish I could have talked to them all and, like a fairy godmother, granted them favors, providing no public harm was done.   But I’m not naive.  A pocket of uncertainty exists when doing good and money travel together.  Yet how do we avoid it?   Money, in so many circumstances, is our letter of introduction, a way of gaining accesses to circles of interest that interest us.  Think of our support for sororities and fraternities, professional associations and private clubs, to name a few. 

In the main, I think we fare best when we extend  a fellow-feeling to each other until there is strong evidence to the contrary.  Without trust there is no love, no family and no society.

 

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Portland, Oregon author Caroline Miller had distinguished careers as an educator, union president, elected official and artist/advocate.

Her play, Woman on the Scarlet Beast, was performed at the Post5 Theatre, Portland, OR, January/February 2015

Caroline published a serialized novelette, Marie Eau-Claire, on the website, The Colored Lens.  She also published the story Gustav Pavel,  a parable about ordinary lives, choice and alternate potential, on the website Fixional.co.

Caroline has published four novels

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  • Trompe l’Oeil
  • Gothic Spring
  • Heart Land

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