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Big Rocks in Little Rock

Little Rock: President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen. The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more

Who is a close, personal friend of whom, now, FatBoy? Mebbe they're just keeping their options open and their palms ...er, oiled for 2008.

"We have 91,000 who gave $100 or less," [chief financial officer for the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, Andrew Kessel] said in an interview Friday. "It's not all Saudi princes."

Of 113,000 donors, 91,000 donated "$100 or less" for a total [high end] of $9,100,000. So that leaves 21,992 donors at an average of $7,089. But wait! It's more involved than that... At the "Trustee" level of $1 million or more are listed: Lew Wasserman at $3 mil Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust at $4 mil Anheuser-Busch Foundation at $1 mil or more Annenburg Foundation at $1 mil House of Saud Governments of Dubai, Kuwait, Qatar, Brunei, Taiwan Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Nasser Al-Rashid, and Walid Juffali. [Saudi 'businessmen'] Deputy PM of Lebanon Stevo Spielberg Alice Walton [WalMart] At the "Philanthropist" level of $1mil -500,000 Service Employees Union [NY] Las Vegas Sun Denise Rich [$450,000] a "NY socialite and singer" and wife of last-minute Clinton pardoned Marc Rich -- the pardon that launched the federal criminal investigation "Humanitarian" level of $100,000 - 500,000 King of Morocco Farooq Bajwa Islamic World Conference Chinese Overseas Real Estate Development corp National Opera of Paris Presidential libraries are public property, run by the National Archives. Wonder if Sandy Berger's Pants are considered a branch library...

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