Original Blog Entry: What does Bill Clinton want to do before he dies

truesee — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:06:42 GMT

Mon Jul 19, 9:20 am ET

What does Bill Clinton want to do before he dies?

Andrew Golis

Mon Jul 19, 9:20 am ET

It sounds like Bill Clinton is thinking of taking his post-presidency in a more cinematic direction.

At the 18th International AIDS Conference on Monday, Clinton noted that he is now old enough to join Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson's fictional characters from The Bucket List in making a list of things to do before he dies. Clinton says he has an A-list of important things, and a B-list of fun things he could do without.

On his A-list:

I would like to live to see my own grandchildren. (His daughter, Chelsea, is getting married at the end of the month, so he may be on his way there.) I'd like to live to know that all the grandchildren of the world will have the chance in the not-too-distant future to live their own dreams and not die before their time.

Over 33 million people live with HIV, and each year another 2.7 million cases are reported. Clinton is at the Vienna conference to help raise awareness and money to battle a disease that, though less in the national consciousness than it has been in years past, continues to devastate large parts of the world.

On Clinton's lighter B-list:

I'd like to climb Kilimanjaro before the snows melt. (Studies predict that climate change will melt the snow on the famous mountain within 20 years.) I'd like to run a marathon before I give out. (Clinton, famously a jogger as president, has had heart troubles in the last decade.)

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