In an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer slated to air Monday night,
Hillary Clinton revealed that she and former President Bill Clinton were "dead broke" when they left the White House.
During one of their last years in the White House,
the Clintons reportedly earned $416,039, the New York Daily News reports, citing the couple's 1999 federal income tax return. But apparently that was not enough to cover their debts and their daughter's education.
“We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt," Clinton told Sawyer. “We had no money when we got there and we struggled to, you know, piece together the
resources for mortgages, for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy.”
According to Mother Jones, just before she left the White House as first lady,
Hillary was given an $8 million advance for her memoir Living History.
The couple had also purchased two homes, one in Washington, D.C., and another in Chappaqua, New York, Time reports.
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