Bill Clinton couldn't serve in Hillary Clinton's cabinet if she's elected president, but he could have a powerful, less formal role in her administration, according to an MSNBC analysis of federal law governing the appointment of relatives.
Hillary Clinton this week said she would put her husband "in charge of revitalizing the economy," especially in economically depressed areas, leading many to wonder what shape the former president's role would take.
Ironically, Hillary Clinton's role in her husband's administration provides the best precedent for what the former president's job might look like.
"I have asked, actually, to be given the job of trying to help every part of the United States that has been left out and left behind economically," Bill Clinton said while campaigning for his wife in Puerto Rico Tuesday. "And I think it is very, very important."