Bill Clinton is probably the poorest
president in recent memory.
Hillary Clinton's investments, which the
Republicans tried to inflate into some sort of "scandal", were a necessary supplement to the piss poor salary of the
governor of
Arkansas, who receives one of the lowest gubernatorial salaries in the nation. (Clinton was making $35,000 a year when he was governor.) With their
education and skills, they could have easily made much, much more than $200,000 in the
private sector.
The bullshit
Whitewater probes may have not bankrupted the Clintons, but they sure did a great job putting lower level aides and functionaries in financial trouble when they suddenly needed legal counsel.