Bill Clinton To Be UN Envoy to Haiti

BBC and the Miami Herald are reporting that former US President Bill Clinton will assume the role of UN Envoy to Haiti, assisting the country in rebuilding after tropical storms in 2008 killed 800 people and caused over a billion dollars in infrastructure damage. Because of his marriage to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, state department lawyers will have to review and approve his new role. This work, in my opinion, is a) very appropriate for an ex-President, and b) exactly the kind of work President Clinton already does through the William Clinton Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, and his co-founded projects with former President George H. W. Bush, the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund, for which they were awarded the 2006 Philadelphia Liberty Medal. President Clinton is also head of the United Nations earthquake and tsunami relief and reconstruction effort, since 2005.