Bill Clinton
President
William Jefferson Clinton
Order 42nd President
President from January 20, 1993 January 20,
2001
Vice President Al Gore
Preceded by George H. W. Bush
Succeeded by George W. Bush
Born August 19, 1946
Hope, Arkansas
Political party Democrat
Spouse Hillary Rodham Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William
Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) was the 42nd
President of the United States, serving from 1993
to 2001. Clinton served five terms as the Governor
of Arkansas. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is
currently the junior U.S. Senator from New York.
A
member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic
Party, he headed the Democratic Leadership Council
in 1990 and 1991. During his tenure as president,
his domestic priorities included a failed effort to
create a universal healthcare system (led by his wife),
restrict handgun sales, strengthen environmental regulations,
and protect the jobs of workers during pregnancy or
medical emergency. His domestic agenda also included
other themes such as reforming welfare programs, signing
NAFTA, expanding the War on Drugs, signing the Defense
of Marriage Act (defining marriage as only between
a man and a woman), law enforcement funding. Internationally,
his priorities included reducing trade barriers, preventing
nuclear proliferation, and mediating the Northern
Ireland peace process and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.
Clinton
was the third-youngest president, behind Theodore
Roosevelt (the youngest) and John F. Kennedy (the
youngest elected). He was the first baby boomer president.
The Clinton/Gore ticket of 1992 was the youngest in
history, with a combined age 90 (Clinton was 46, Vice
Presidential nominee Al Gore was 44). Clinton was
one of only two Presidents in American history to
be impeached, and was acquitted by a vote of the United
States Senate on February 12, 1999. In both runs for
Presidency, Clinton never received a majority of the
popular vote, though he ended his Presidential career
with a 65% approval rating, the highest end-of-term
approval rating of any President in the post-Eisenhower
era.
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*Note:
Media Man Australia organised and coordinated Max
Markson, director of Markson Sparks! to be interviewed
on Newstalk ZB Radio, New Zealand, about Bill Clinton's
speaking engagement, on the 19th February 2006.
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