The Clintons are the wealthiest living family to leave the White House, but Hillary Clinton said in an interview released over the weekend that she doesn’t think her wealth will turn Americans against her if she runs for president in 2016.
Since leaving the Obama administration, Clinton has charged $200,000 on average for paid speeches. However, she told the Guardian on Saturday that she doesn’t find her income level problematic because she and Bill pay ‘ordinary’ taxes. “They don’t see me as part of the problem because we pay ordinary income tax, unlike a lot of people who are truly well off,” Clinton said.
“Bill and I worked hard for everything we got in our lives and we have continued to work hard. And we’ve been blessed in the last 14 years,” Clinton told Good Morning America host Robin Roberts.
In 2004 Bill locked down an unheard of $15 million advance for his autobiography My Life, and, as of last year, he had made $106 million off of speeches.
His net worth as of last February was $55 million, and he has continued to make money off of speeches since.
Hillary Clinton has made roughly $5 million in speeches since leaving the State Department last year, and she had made more than $16 million in advances for her two memoirs, In Living History, 2003, and Hard Choices, 2014.
Bill and Hillary Clinton also own a three story, 5,152-sq-ft home in DC that has four bedrooms, six bathrooms and a basement. The average home in their neighborhood is valued at $6,586,000.
In terms of the richest presidents ever, Bill Clinton ranks in the top 10. President Barack Obama has the lowest net worth of all the living presidents, coming in at $5 million. Most of that money came from the two books he wrote before becoming president, the 1995 his Dreams from My Father and his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope.
The wealthiest American president in history, according to Wall Street, was John F. Kennedy, who left behind $1 billion in shared property with other members of the Kennedy family.
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