42nd President: Bill Clinton.

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42nd President Bill Clinton.

• April 28, 1758 July 4, 1831

A   Presentation  by
Julian Mesina George Berganza Kalifa Sprowl
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B a c k g r o u n d.

• Born William Jefferson Blythe, III, father died
  of an automobile accident when he was four.
• Took the last name Clinton from his Step Father
  at age Fourteen.
• First lived on Hope, Arkansas, later the family
  moved to Hot Springs in 1950.
• In 1963, two influential moments in Clinton's
  life contributed to his decision to become a
  public figure One was his visit to the White
  House to meet President John F. Kennedy, as a
  Boys Nation senator.The other was listening to
  Martin Luther King's 1963 I Have a Dream speech
  (he memorized Dr. King's words).
• Attended Yale University to get his J.D. in 1973,
  which is when he also met and later married
  Hilary Rodham.

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 F a m i l y.

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• Bill Clinton, or William 
• Jefferson "Bill" Clinton 
• (born William Jefferson 
• Blythe III), the 42nd President of the United
  States from 1993 to 2001, and former Governor of
  Arkansas
• Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary
  Clinton
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, the current United States
  Secretary of State, a former United States
  Senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009
  and, as the spouse of Bill Clinton, the First
  Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and
  the former First Lady of Arkansas.
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E l e c t i v e O f f i c e.

• Clinton was 
• appointed on 
• January 20, 1993 
• as the 42nd President of the United States.
• Elected Offices before becoming President
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• A. Governor of Arkansas  
• B. Senator from Arkansas  
• C. Vice president of the 
• United States 
• D. Governor of Mississippi

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Domestic Policy

• gtgtIn 1993, Clinton signed a bill previously
  vetoed by both Reagan and Bush. The Family and
  Medical Leave Act requires certain companies to
  allow up to 12 weeks unpaid leave to qualifying
  employees in the event of family or medical
  emergencies. The goal of the act was to give
  employees job security during times of crisis.
•     Prior Republican administrations passed into
  law a group of bans on abortion-related issues.
  Clinton revoked these bans, stating he wanted "an
  America where abortion is safe and legal, but
  rare." For the most part, these bans dealt with
  restricting abortion-related activities and
  products.
•     With a growing national deficit, one of
  Clinton's top priorities was to cut federal
  spending. His proposal was designed to reduce the
  deficit in the long run, while using short-term
  techniques to encourage the economy. The
  short-term part of his plan was killed by
  Congress, but the rest approved.

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P r e s i d e n c y (18171825) The Era of Good
Feelings.

• During the Clinton administration, the U.S.
  enjoyed more peace and economic well-being than
  at any time in its history. He was the first
  Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt
  to win a second term. He could point to the
  lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the
  lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home
  ownership in the countrys history, dropping
  crime rates in many places and reduced welfare
  rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in
  decades and achieved a budget surplus. After the
  failure in his second year of a huge program of
  health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis,
  declaring, The era of big government is over.
  He sought legislation to upgrade education, to
  protect jobs of parents who must care for sick
  children, to restrict handgun sales and to
  strengthen environmental rules.

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Foreign Policy

• - -.There are indications that the US is making
  substantial changes in significant areas of
  foreign policy. It has decided to abandon its
  policy of trying to topple Cuban leader Fidel
  Castro by making Cubans rebel, and has agreed to
  make more medicine and food available to Cuba.
  The US Senate looks set to approve the expansion
  of Nato to include the Czech Republic, Poland and
  Hungary, and US officials have been much less
  aggressive towards Iraq. Efforts to obtain peace
  in the Middle East have been scale down, even
  though the Middle East is still officially the
  key foreign policy issue for the US.

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Successes and Failures

• Failures!
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• -Universal Healthcare-1993 Campaign Finance
  Reform 
• The only two not passed by congress

• Success!
• -North American Free Trade Agreement-Medicare
  Reform-New Welfare Program
• -Major "Crime Bill' legislation

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"Charismatic"

• It is often overlooked, but Bill Clinton assumed
  the presidency in one of the most difficult times
  in our nation's history. The country was in a
  deep recession, the end of the Cold War had
  created new threats to our national security, and
  our health care system was in shambles. 
• The country has now come full circle. Leadership
  has been replaced with self-interest, cronyism,
  and fear. More than ever, Bill Clinton's candor
  and success in adversity warrant revisiting
  during this age of a closed-door adminstration
  and governmental incompetence.

"The road to tyranny,  we must never
forget,  begins with the  destruction of the
truth." -Clinton
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Final Opinion

• Though he may have made a moniker of himself
  by being a womanizing yet charismatic president,
  he was one of the most successful
  at achieving what he felt promised a beneficial
  American future. He is notable for using the
  words of Martin Luther King Jr. and was inspired
  by his childhood meeting with John F. Kennedy. At
  the end of his two terms, he left office with 15
  signed major legislations and the highest
  approval rate in a Gallup Poll since any
  president of the second world war. Point is, he
  is beyond the moniker he's mandated himself as
  and is actually one of the countries most
  promising president.

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Bibliography

• "Bill Clinton" Clintonmemoriallibrary.com Web. 7
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•     lthttp//www.clintonmemoriallibrary.com/clint_f
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• "Bill Clinton." Family Life Web. 7 Apr. 2010.
  lthttp//clinton4.nara.gov/WH/Family         
   /html/Life.htmlgt.
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• "American President Bill CLinton." Domestic
  Policy. Web. 7. Apr. 2010.                       
  lthttp//library.thinkquest.org/11492/cgi-bin/pres.
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•     clinton_william/domesticgt.