Bill Clinton
Overview
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American
Americans
The people of the United States, also known as simply Americans or American people, are the inhabitants or citizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds...

 politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

 from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...

, and was the first president of the baby boomer
Baby boomer
A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom and who grew up during the period between 1946 and 1964. The term "baby boomer" is sometimes used in a cultural context. Therefore, it is impossible to achieve broad consensus of a precise definition, even...

 generation.
Timeline

1993    U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.

1993    The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by US President Bill Clinton.

1994    Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging that he had sexually harassed her in 1991.

1994    Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).

1995    President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

1995    U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

1996    Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

1996    U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.

1996    Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy

1996    U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

Quotations

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1993)

African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

White House interview with Ed Gordon, correspondent for Black Entertainment Television (2 November 1994)

 
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