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American Presidents
by Kopasinova Nastya
Bill Clinton is the 42nd American president
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an
American politician who served as the 42nd
President of the United States
from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he
was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first
president of the baby boomer generation.
Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. Many of
his policies have been attributed to a centrist Third Way philosophy of
governance.
Born and raised in Arkansas,
Clinton became both a student
leader and a skilled musician. He is an alumnus of
Georgetown University where he
was Phi Beta Kappa and earned
a Rhodes Scholarship to attend
the University of Oxford. He is married to
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the
United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was the
Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. Both Clintons received law degrees from
Yale Law School, where they met and began dating. As
Governor of Arkansas, Clinton
overhauled the state's education
system, and served as Chair of the
National Governors Association.
Clinton was elected president in 1992,
defeating incumbent president
George H.W. Bush. As president, Clinton
presided over the longest period of
peacetime economic expansion in
American history. He signed into law the
North American Free Trade Agreement.
He implemented Don't ask, don't tell, a
controversial intermediate step to full
gay military integration. After a failed
health care reform attempt,Republicans
won control of Congress in 1994, for the
first time in forty years. Two years later,
the re-elected Clinton became the first
member of the Democratic Party since
Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full
term as president. He successfully
passed welfare reform and theState
Children's Health Insurance Program,
providing health coverage for millions of
children. Later, he was impeached for
perjury andobstruction of justice in a
scandal involving a White House intern,
but was acquitted by the U.S. Senate
and served his complete term of office.
The Congressional Budget Office
reported a budget surplus between the
years 1998 and 2000, the last three
years of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton left office with the highest
end-of-office approval rating of any
U.S. president since World War II.
Since then, he has been involved in
public speaking and humanitarian
work. Based on his philanthropic
worldview, Clinton created the
William J. Clinton Foundation to
promote and address international
causes such as prevention of AIDS
and global warming. In 2004, he
released his autobiography My Life,
and was involved in his wife's and then Barack Obama's
campaigns for president in 2008. In
2009, he was named United
Nations Special Envoy toHaiti, and
after the 2010 earthquake he
teamed with George W. Bush to
form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.
Since leaving office, Clinton has been rated highly in
public opinion polls of U.S. presidents
.
• He was elected Governor of Arkansas for five terms.
• He is known for appointing minorities and
women to high-level positions.
• Warren Christopher and later Madeleine Albright
served as his Secretaries of State.
• During his term, the federal budget was
balanced.
In the first primary contest, the
Iowa caucus, Clinton finished a distant third to
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. During the campaign
for the New Hampshire primary, reports of an
extramarital affair with Gennifer Flowers
surfaced. As Clinton fell far behind former
Massachusetts SenatorPaul Tsongas in the New
Hampshire polls,[5] following Super Bowl XXVI,
Clinton and his wife Hillary went on 60 Minutes
to rebuff the charges. Their television
appearance was a calculated risk, but Clinton
regained several delegates. He finished second
to Tsongas in the New Hampshire primary, but
after trailing badly in the polls and coming
within single digits of winning, the media viewed
it as a victory. News outlets labeled him "The
Comeback Kid" for earning a firm second-place finish.[35]
Winning the big prizes of Florida and Texas and
many of the Southern primaries on
Super Tuesday gave Clinton a sizable delegate
lead. However, former California Governor Jerry
Brownwas scoring victories and Clinton had yet
to win a significant contest outside his native
South.[5][34] With no major Southern state
remaining, Clinton targeted New York, which had
many delegates. He scored a resounding victory
in New York City, shedding his image as a
regional candidate.[34] Having been transformed
into the consensus candidate, he secured the
Democratic Party nomination, finishing with a
victory in Jerry Brown's home state of California.[5]
Bill Clinton is a very interesting person!