A few months later, Clinton became secretary of state. While she was in charge of the State Department, her husband's philanthropic creation, the Clinton Foundation, collected millions of dollars in donations from individuals and countries throughout the world. Although it's possible that all of them were motivated by a charitable impulse, they also stood to benefit from good relations with the United States. And how could it hurt to ingratiate yourself to the husband of the secretary of state, an ex-president at that?