As the drumbeats grow louder demanding that the Clinton Foundation bow to political pressure and close its doors, I’m reminded of my own skepticism more than a decade ago about what Bill Clinton could accomplish. The Clinton Foundation announced it was partnering with the Indian National AIDS Control Organization to help train 150,000 doctors to support modernized HIV/AIDS treatment. I did not believe that the Clinton Foundation could achieve such a lofty objective. When the initiative was launched, people living with HIV were so stigmatized that their civil rights were violated. The idea that Bill Clinton could persuade the Indian government to mobilize 150,000 healthcare professionals in this climate seemed highly unlikely. But I was wrong: the foundation and the Indian National AIDS Control Organization reached and then surpassed their goal — and then the foundation went on to establish a successful pediatric HIV/AIDS initiative