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| Subject: Bush, Clinton team up again to aid Ike victims; With other people's money, naturally! Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:19 pm | |
| NEW YORK (AP) — Former presidents Bush and Clinton are joining forces again to help out the victims of Hurricane Ike.
The former presidents first teamed up to raise $11 million for tsunami victims, then worked to raise private money to help victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The two announced their new fundraising drive at a surprise joint appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Wednesday.
The new Bush-Clinton hurricane recovery fund won't make grants to individuals or families. Instead, it will coordinate with the hardest-hit cities and towns along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast to finance infrastructure projects.
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