As Bill Clinton leaves town, former Reuters Washington correspondent Bette Browne examines the odds of another Clinton making it to the White House.

IF, as they say, politicians, ugly buildings and whores all become respectable with age, then former US president William Jefferson Clinton, who turns 65 today, seems bang on target for veneration in his autumn years.

AFTER laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales.