With the Clintons, there is always someone who will find something controversial in their actions, but overall, it was in fact a selling point. In contrast to the very wealthy Bush and Perot, Clinton sold it as being a man of the people.

It did not actually happen, but a rumor popped up that, when asked, Bush was unable to guess how much a gallon of milk cost. In response, to this rumor, a reporter asked Bill a similar question, and he correctly reeled off the price of a variety of typical grocery purchases.

Now mind you, while not rich, they were not poor either, Hillary had been making around $100,000 as a partner in the Rose law firm. This was on top of Bill's salary of $35,000. But none the less, since Truman, they had the lowest net worth of and Presidential family. And this was a selling point in his campaign.

And I cannot go in-depth into this aspect because of the twenty-year-rule, but even before 1997, Bill was already having to invest a lot of money into lawyers, further depleting their net worth.