William J.

Clinton

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Bill Clinton was president of the United States for two terms, from
1993 to 2001, and is best known as the president who survived
impeachment after a sex scandal.

• William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, on

August 19, 1946.
• Clinton was governor of Arkansas (1979-81, 1983-93).
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42nd president of the United States (1993-2001).
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His mother, Virginia Kelly, named him William Jefferson Blyth IV.
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Malco movie theater 817 Central Ave. This theater was a favorite
place for Clinton and his friends to while away summer afternoons.
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Clinton spent the 1970s as a law professor and then Attorney
General of Arkansas, and for most of the 1980s he was Governor of
Arkansas.
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His first term was characterized by a strong economic recovery,
and in 1996 he beat Republican Bob Dole and was re-elected.
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His second term was dominated by scandal: accusations of
corruption and investigations into rumors of his marital infidelity.
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Clinton was accused of committing perjury and obstruction of
justice in his attempt to cover up an extra-marital affair with a White
House intern, Monica Lewinsky. In the subsequent senate trial, Clinton
was acquitted of the charges and remained in office.
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His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected as a U.S. Senator from
New York in 2000, the first time a First Lady had ever been elected to
public office.
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Clinton's father, William Blythe, died in a car accident before
Clinton was born; after his mother remarried, the future president took
the last name of his stepfather, Roger Clinton.
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While in office, Clinton was sued by Paula Jones, an Arkansas state
employee who claimed Clinton had sexually harassed her in 1991.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, who attended
Stanford University while her father was president.
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Clinton's memoir, "My Life," was published in 2004.
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He attended Georgetown University, the University of Oxford (as a
Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School, then taught law at the
University of Arkansas.
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He settled for a compromise policy, dubbed the ”Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
Don't Pursue” policy, that satisfied no one.
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In his first term, Clinton cut the annual deficits in half, laying the
groundwork for growth, as well as lower unemployment and inflation.
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Throughout his Presidency, Clinton remained a centrist, attacked
by conservatives for his defense of affirmative action programs and
abortion rights and attacked by liberals for his willingness to cut
domestic programs.
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Capturing Osama bin Laden has been an objective of the United
States government since the presidency of Bill Clinton.
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On June 13, 2007, Clinton was honored by the Global Business
Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria alongside eight
multinational-companies for his work to defeat HIV/AIDS.