In her first year as Secretary of State, Hillary is quoted as directly asking that Becker be included in a high-profile policy dinner — just months before Laureate gave the lucrative contract to Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton later references “Laureate Universities, started by Doug Becker who Bill likes a lot".<ref>http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/hillarys-emails-reveal-lucrative-ties-to-for-profit-colleges/</ref> “It’s a for-profit model that should be represented,” she wrote in the August 2009 email.<ref>https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/02/clinton-sought-invite-laureate-state-dept-dinner</ref><ref>https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_JulyWeb/Web_031/DOC_0C05763085/C05763085.pdf</ref><ref>https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_JulyWeb/Web_032-033/DOC_0C05763758/C05763758.pdf</ref> | In her first year as Secretary of State, Hillary is quoted as directly asking that Becker be included in a high-profile policy dinner — just months before Laureate gave the lucrative contract to Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton later references “Laureate Universities, started by Doug Becker who Bill likes a lot".<ref>http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/hillarys-emails-reveal-lucrative-ties-to-for-profit-colleges/</ref> “It’s a for-profit model that should be represented,” she wrote in the August 2009 email.<ref>https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/02/clinton-sought-invite-laureate-state-dept-dinner</ref><ref>https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_JulyWeb/Web_031/DOC_0C05763085/C05763085.pdf</ref><ref>https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_JulyWeb/Web_032-033/DOC_0C05763758/C05763758.pdf</ref> |