article_snippet: The Clintons can make a plausible case that The Clintons's best to solicit money from companies and foreign governments -- even ethically challenged ones -- and put it to good use attacking problems of global poverty.
article_snippet: As Bill Clinton recently told reporters: "You've got to decide when you do this work whether this work will do more good than harm if someone helps you from another country.
article_snippet: Different initiatives were added over the years to combat AIDS, climate change, poverty and other ills; the most high-profile of these projects, the Clinton Global Initiative, added in 2005, brings world leaders together to tackle the world's problems.
article_snippet: In one well-publicized case, Bill Clinton pressed a state-owed Russian airline to buy American planes from Boeing.
article_snippet: The effort worked: Boeing ended up with a $3.7 billion contract.
article_snippet: But weeks after Clinton's persuasion (what Clinton called a "shameless pitch"), Boeing donated $900,000 to the William J. Clinton Foundation.
article_snippet: The Clintons can credibly argue that the money The Clintons collected has funded more than a billion dollars' worth of good works, from lowering the price of HIV-fighting drugs in developing countries to advancing green technology and educating girls and women.