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Seems to have done more than Obama......
She founded and ran a non-profit organization, the American Voluntary Medical Team, from 1988 to 1995 that organized trips by medical personnel to disaster-struck or war-torn third-world areas. She continues to be an active philanthropist and serves on the boards of several charitable organizations.
In 2000, she became chair of the now $300-million-a-year Hensley & Co.[44] following her father's death.[39] She, together with her children and one of John McCain's children from his first marriage, own 68 percent of the company.[45] As chair, her role takes the form of consultations with the company CEO on major initiatives such as new products, new plants, or employee welfare, rather than of an active physical presence;[46][47] she does not have operational control of Hensley, and Anheuser-Busch considers her to be an absentee owner.[12] By 2007, she had an annual income of over $400,000 from Hensley and an estimated net worth of $100 million.[25] She also owned at least $2.7 million worth of shares of Anheuser-Busch stock.[48][12] With her children, she owns a minority stake in the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team.[29]
She became actively involved with Operation Smile in 2001,[49] taking parts in trips with it to Morocco, Vietnam, and India.[49] She was honored by the organization in 2005,[49] and sits on its board of directors.[32] She joined the board of directors of CARE in 2005.[32] She is on the board of the HALO Trust,[32] and has visited operations to remove landmines in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Mozambique, and Angola.[17] She makes financial contributions to these organizations via her family trust,[18] and views her role on them as watching them in the field and to ensure they are frugal and their money is being spent effectively.[47] On occasion she has criticized foreign regimes on human rights grounds, such as Myanmar's military junta.[50]
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