Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States. 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 from 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. Before becoming president, he was the Governor of Arkansas for five two-year terms, serving from 1979 to 1981 and from 1983 to 1992. He was also the state's Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. More
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 a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Beta Kappa and earned a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford. He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who served as United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 and who was a 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.
Bill Clinton timeline
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Bill Clinton is Born
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, in Hope, Arkansas. His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who... Read more
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Bill Clinton Meets President John F. Kennedy
"Sometime in my sixteenth year I decided I wanted to be in public life as an elected official. I loved music and thought I could be very good, but... Read more
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Bill Clinton loses an Arkansas congressional race
After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton returned to Arkansas and became a professor at the University of Arkansas. A year later, he ran for... Read more
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Bill Clinton Marries Hillary Rodham
After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1973. While at Yale, he began dating law student... Read more
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Bill Clinton Governor of Arkansas
Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, making him the youngest governor in the country at age thirty-two. He worked on educational... Read more
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Bill Clinton loses re-election bid for Arkansas Governor
Later that year, in a close election, Governor Clinton lost the race for a second term to Republican Frank White. Feeling that he had not... Read more
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Bill Clinton re-elected as Governor of Arkansas
He helped Arkansas transform its economy and significantly improve the state's educational system. He became a leading figure among the New... Read more
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Bill Clinton accepts the Presidential Nomination of the Democratic Party
Clinton, a Southerner with experience governing a more conservative state, positioned himself as a centrist New Democrat. He prepared for a run in... Read more
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Bill Clinton is Elected the 42nd President of the United States
The United States presidential election of 1992 had three major candidates: Incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush; Democrat Arkansas... Read more
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Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by... Read more
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Bill Clinton Signs his First Law the Family and Medical Leave Act
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), was passed by the 103rd United States Congress and subsequently signed into law on 5 August 1993... Read more
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Bill Clinton Proposes "don't ask, don't tell" Military Policy
The policy was introduced as a compromise measure in 1993 and approved by then President Bill Clinton who, while campaigning for the Presidency,... Read more
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Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords, officially called the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements or Declaration of Principles (DOP) was a... Read more
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Bill Clinton Signs the North American Free Trade Agreement
Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1991 between the three nations, the leaders met in San Antonio, Texas, on December 17, 1992, to... Read more
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President Bill Clinton Announces Haitian Military Regime's Decision to Surrender Power in the Face of Imminent US Invasion
In December 1990, the former priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected President in the Haitian general election, winning by more than two thirds... Read more
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Bill Clinton's Universal Health Care Initiative fails in Congress
One of the most prominent items on Clinton's legislative agenda was the result of a taskforce headed by Hillary Clinton, which was a health care... Read more
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Elena Kagan Serves on the Clinton Administration
In 1995, she took a job in the Clinton White House serving as associate counsel to the president and then deputy assistant to the president for... Read more
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Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (Oslo II) signed
Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip or Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, or simply the Interim Agreement, also known as Oslo... Read more
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Major Health Care Bill, Sponsored by Edward Kennedy and Nancy Kassebaum, is Signed into Law
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act shows what happens as Sen. Kassebaum said and Sen. Kennedy said when we work together, when... Read more
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Bill Clinton accepts 2nd Presidential Nomination of the Democratic Party
The 1996 Democratic National Convention of the was held at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois from August 26 to August 29, 1996. Incumbent... Read more
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Bill Clinton awards Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom
In 1996, Rosa Parks was presented, by President Bill Clinton, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the highest honor that can be... Read more
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Madeleine Albright First Woman Appointed to US Secretary of State
Madeleine Korbel Albright (born May 15, 1937) is the first woman to become a United States Secretary of State. She was appointed by U.S. President... Read more
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Bill Clinton's second inauguration
The second inauguration of Bill Clinton as the 42nd President of the United States took place on January 20, 1997. The inauguration marked the... Read more
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President Bill Clinton Nominates Sonia Sotomayor to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
On June 25, 1997, Sotomayor was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which was... Read more
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Bill Clinton Publicly Denies Monica Lewinsky Allegations
I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to... Read more