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Wed Jun 10, 2015, 09:51 PM Jun 2015

Bill Clinton Might Stop Giving Paid Speeches If Hillary Wins The White House [View all]

Jun 10, 2015, 6:41 PM ET
By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE


PHOTO: Former U.S President Bill Clinton speaks during a plenary session at the Clinton Global Initiative Middle East & Africa meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, May 6, 2015.

Bill Clinton will have some tough decisions to make if Hillary Clinton wins White House, including whether to continue his lucrative paid speaking career.

At the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Denver, the former president said that he will likely stop giving paid speeches if Hillary Clinton is elected president.

"No. I don't think so," Clinton said in an interview with Bloomberg TV when asked about staying on the paid speaking circuit were his wife to win. "Because once you get to be president, then you are just making a daily story."

But Clinton added that he would not stop speaking publicly altogether: “I will still give speeches on things I’m passionate about.”

Just last month the former president indicated that he would continue to deliver paid speeches during his wife’s presidential campaign, telling NBC News, “I got to pay our bills.”

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