NEW YORK (October 28, 2006) — Celebrating your birthday on the day of your birth is common. Celebrating it by getting your wealthy friends to donate to your charitable foundation is presidential.
Former President Bill Clinton was celebrating his 60th birthday this weekend, with deep-pocketed donors forking over sizable checks to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation for the chance to dine, play golf and attend a Rolling Stones concert with him.
Clinton, who turned 60 in August, has already observed the occasion at parties on Martha’s Vineyard and in Toronto.
This weekend’s bash — a fundraiser — is being co-hosted by Chelsea Clinton and by Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton friend and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Sen. Hillary Clinton is expected to attend at least some of the events.
The festivities were to include a series of cocktail parties and dinners across New York, and golf in New Jersey. The centerpiece events were a dinner Saturday night at the Museum of Natural History, and a private Rolling Stones concert at New York’s historic Beacon Theater on Sunday.
Tickets to the three-day affair started at $60,000, with a VIP package — which includes special seating at the concert and dinner and a photo with Clinton — running $500,000.
The Clinton Foundation operates programs to combat AIDS in Africa, as well as global poverty and ethnic strife.
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