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In case the money he gets for selling the Whitehouse silver and crystal runs
out.... Chinese Firm Offers Clinton Two Million Dollars to be "Image" Envoy BEIJING, Feb 18, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A major Chinese garments firm unveiled Sunday a two-million-dollar offer to Bill Clinton to represent the company and said he was considering the proposal. Fapai, a firm specializing in men's garments and based in the freewheeling Wenzhou city in eastern China's Zhejiang province, had asked Clinton to be its "image ambassador," a company spokesman said, confirming a Beijing Youth Daily report. The company had written to Clinton in May 2000 but the offer was considered premature by the then U.S. president, the report said. When the offer was repeated after he left the White House, Hillary Clinton acknowledged it in a letter, it said. "Mrs Clinton thanked us on her own and her husband's behalf for the offer and expressed readiness to discuss it face to face with the company director," the daily said quoting the firm. A company spokesman told AFP that Hillary Clinton's letter was received last week. Fapai has already roped in top Hong Kong film actor Tony Leung, who made a name for himself in the French film "L'Amant" directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. (© 2001 Agence France Presse)
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