[209][210][211] President Clinton in 2000 pushed Congress to approve the U.S.-China trade agreement and China's accession to the WTO, saying that more trade with China would advance America's economic interests: "Economically, this agreement is the equivalent of a one-way street. The two charges passed in the House (largely with Republican support, but with a handful of Democratic votes as well) were for perjury and obstruction of justice. [222] Clinton also appointed the nation's first openly gay or lesbian federal judge when he named Deborah Batts to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. [85][86], Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd president of the United States on January 20, 1993. Bill said that feeling bad wasn't good enough. [52] After extensive investigation over several years, no indictments were made against the Clintons related to the years in Arkansas. In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term. Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush. Through the Clinton Foundation he not only created an organization doing groundbreaking work on issues ranging from AIDS to obesity, he created a post-presidency identity for himself in the process as a global, goodwill ambassador. [249] Morrison noted that Clinton's sex life was scrutinized more than his career accomplishments, and she compared this to the stereotyping and double standards that, she said, blacks typically endure. Only top members of the U.S. intelligence community were aware of these events. [150], In the January 1997, State of the Union address, Clinton proposed a new initiative to provide health coverage to up to five million children. In 1976, Clinton ran for Arkansas attorney general. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. [13], Clinton joined friend Bruce Lindsey's Little Rock law firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings. [49] For senior citizens, he removed the sales tax from medications and increased the home property-tax exemption. [208], The U.S.–China Relations Act of 2000 granted China permanent normal trade relations (NTR) status (previously called most favoured nation (MFN)) when China becomes a full member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), ending annual review and approval of NTR. After killing a police officer and a civilian, Rector shot himself in the head, leading to what his lawyers said was a state where he could still talk but did not understand the idea of death. The final vote was generally along party lines, with no Democrats voting guilty, and only a handful of Republicans voting not guilty. "[201] American and British aircraft in the Iraq no-fly zones attacked hostile Iraqi air defenses 166 times in 1999 and 78 times in 2000. In 2009, he was named the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he teamed up with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Socks Clinton (1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton's family during his presidency. Opposition came chiefly from anti-trade Republicans, protectionist Democrats and supporters of Ross Perot. [146] This alerted Merletti and others as Clinton's motorcade was scheduled to drive over a major bridge in downtown Manila. [252], Shortly after Clinton took office, Richard Mellon Scaife, a conservative newspaper owner, began to underwrite investigations into Clinton's past, reportedly with the hope of discovering a scandal which would cost him his presidency. [50][51] Clinton delivered the Democratic response to Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas. "'It's the Environment, Stupid! Sotomayor was confirmed in 1998, following a delay of more than a year that was caused by Republican opposition. Clinton was very angry, as he was already late for the meeting, but following the advice of the secret service possibly saved his life. [310] In response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, U.S. president Barack Obama announced that Clinton and George W. Bush would coordinate efforts to raise funds for Haiti's recovery. In September 2004, Clinton underwent quadruple bypass surgery. He also appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court. [148] Security personnel at the Manila International Airport uncovered several grenades and a timing device in a travel bag. [374][375], The audiobook edition of his autobiography, My Life, read by Clinton himself, won the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album[374] as well as the Audie Award as the Audiobook of the Year. [269] In a 1998 NBC interview wherein she detailed the alleged rape, Broaddrick said she had denied (under oath) being raped only to avoid testifying about the ordeal publicly. [235] Authors Martin Walker and Bob Woodward stated that Clinton's innovative use of sound bite-ready dialogue, personal charisma, and public perception-oriented campaigning were a major factor in his high public approval ratings. [330] In May 2015, The Hill reported that Bill and Hillary Clinton have made more than $25 million in speaking fees since the start of 2014, and that Hillary Clinton also made $5 million or more from her book, Hard Choices, during the same time period. [63][64] His policy of fiscal conservatism helped to reduce deficits on budgetary matters. Bill Clinton was staring at something very approvingly at Donald Trump's inauguration, and Hillary appeared to catch him doing so. [329] Also in 2016, CNN reported the Clintons combined to receive more than $153 million in paid speeches from 2001 until spring 2015. [374], "William Clinton" redirects here. ", Clinton's December 8, 1993 remarks on the signing of the, "When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web ... Now even, In 2012, the category was merged back into, Vietnam War opposition and draft controversy, Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992), Sexual misconduct and sexual assault allegations. After graduating from law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as state attorney general, followed by two non-consecutive terms as Arkansas governor. [280] Clinton released a best-selling autobiography, My Life, in 2004. The plan focused on reducing the deficit rather than on cutting taxes for the middle class, which had been high on his campaign agenda. Their television appearance was a calculated risk, but Clinton regained several delegates. But perhaps the line in the article that most dashed any hopes of another great comeback were the words of one of his former top aides who said of Clinton's post-election role, "Unless Obama messes up, President Clinton is irrelevant.". The Arkansas Education Standards Committee was chaired by Clinton's wife Hillary, who was also an attorney as well as the chair of the Legal Services Corporation. In his autobiography, Clinton blames Arafat for the collapse of the summit. Bill Clinton Retro Propaganda Super soft fashionable women trend socks. During Bill Clinton's administration, House Republicans even called for an inquiry into Socks, the First Cat. 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Clinton Foundation announces agreement to reduce junk food in schools", "Clinton Foundation and Climate Partnership, Press Release", "Obama team turns scrutiny on Bill Clinton", "Young man combines expertise in economics and social issues at Clinton Foundation", "Bill Clinton says he didn't know about Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking crimes", "Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein: How Are They Connected? Clinton fell far behind former Massachusetts senator Paul Tsongas in the New Hampshire polls. "Bill Clinton falling asleep at the inauguration is the best thing I’ve ever seen," added another. The treaty was then ratified by the Senate and signed into law by the president. Clinton repeatedly condemned Bush for making a promise he failed to keep. President Bill Clinton had a cat named Socks, seen here on top of a deer in the White House garden on Dec. 25, 1994. [136] He was later honored by GLAAD for his prior pro-gay stances and his reversal on DOMA. [36], After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and earned a Juris Doctor (J.D.) In November 1995, Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland, seeing both the divided communities of Belfast and later famously shaking Adams' hand, 14 months into an IRA ceasefire during the Troubles. [72][73] Over the same period, the Office of Management and Budget reported an end of year (December 31) gross debt of $5.369 trillion in 1997, $5.478 trillion in 1998, $5.606 in 1999, and $5.629 trillion in 2000. During his term, he helped transform Arkansas's economy and improved the state's educational system. Batts was confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote in 1994. Ricks. The failure of the bill was the first major legislative defeat of the Clinton administration.[50][53]. According to their findings, Clinton ranked eighth overall, with a rating of 70 percent. According to David Mixner, Clinton's support for the compromise led to a heated dispute with Vice President Al Gore, who felt that "the President should lift the ban ... even though [his executive order] was sure to be overridden by the Congress". [71] Over the years of the recorded surplus, the gross national debt rose each year. [283] After Hurricane Katrina, Clinton joined with fellow former president George H. W. Bush to establish the Bush-Clinton Tsunami Fund in January 2005, and the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund in October of that year. Intelligence reports indicate that Clinton was aware a "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" was underway, long before the administration publicly used the word "genocide". Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age; they were solidified (by his own account) in 1963, when he met Pres. ", "Monitors' Reports Provide Chronicle of Kosovo Terror", "Milosevic's war crimes trial a 4-year marathon", "Text of President Clinton's 1998 State of the Union Address", "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, H.R.4655, One Hundred Fifth Congress of United States of America at Second Session", "Address to the Nation on Completion of Military Strikes in Iraq", "Chinese Embassy Bombing In Belgrade: Compensation Issues", "Was Letting China Into the WTO a Mistake? [50] Later in his presidency, in 1999, Clinton criticized the way the policy was implemented, saying he did not think any serious person could say it was not "out of whack". [162] Both votes fell short of the constitutional two-thirds majority requirement to convict and remove an officeholder. While Hillary Clinton was in South Korea, she and Cheryl Mills worked to convince SAE-A, a large apparel subcontractor, to invest in Haiti despite the company's deep concerns about plans to raise the minimum wage. [304][305], Clinton with then-President Barack Obama and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett in July 2010, Clinton, his wife Hillary, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York City on September 29, 2014, In 2009, Clinton travelled to North Korea on behalf of two American journalists imprisoned there. Edwards; George C. "Bill Clinton and His Crisis of Governance", Fisher; Patrick. [3][4] He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). Clinton declared at the ceremony that "in the United States of America, I really don't believe former American presidents need awards anymore, but I am very honored by this one, I love Haiti, and I believe in its promise". [284] As part of the tsunami effort, these two ex-presidents appeared in a Super Bowl XXXIX pre-game show,[285] and traveled to the affected areas. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Socks, the cat who won international fame during his years in the Clinton White House, was euthanized Friday after months of treatment for cancer. [278] In 2005, Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal. "[125] Clinton himself said DOMA was something "which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for Bush up, I think it's obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that". After a House inquiry, Clinton was impeached on December 19, 1998 by the House of Representatives. [20], Upon graduating from Georgetown in 1968, Clinton won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford, where he initially read for a B.Phil. He created the Clinton Foundation to address international causes such as the prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming. “Bill Clinton is all of us,” Grabien founder Tom Elliott wrote on Twitter along with a clip of Mr Clinton with his eyes closed. [194] The term "ethnic cleansing" was used as an alternative to "genocide" to denote not just ethnically motivated murder but also displacement, though critics charge there is little difference. Hammerschmidt, who had received 77 percent of the vote in 1972, defeated Clinton by only a 52 percent to 48 percent margin. [13][53], According to some sources, Clinton was a death penalty opponent in his early years, but he eventually switched positions. [123] Paul Yandura, speaking for the White House gay and lesbian liaison office, said Clinton's signing DOMA "was a political decision that they made at the time of a re-election". [370] Bill Clinton accepted an honorary membership into the Golden Key International Honour Society, along with other notables such as Bill Ford, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. [204], On October 10, 2000, Clinton signed into law the U.S.–China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) trade status to China. The Act was signed into law on October 10, 2000 by Clinton. [321][323] After this procedure, Clinton adopted a plant-based whole foods (vegan) diet, which had been recommended by doctors Dean Ornish and Caldwell Esselstyn. Golden Key International Honour Society is the world’s largest international collegiate honor society for graduate and undergraduate students, and has strong relationships with over 400 universities around the world. [227] ABC News characterized public consensus on Clinton as, "You can't trust him, he's got weak morals and ethics—and he's done a heck of a good job. [233] The same poll showed that just 3% of American voters regarded Clinton as the worst president since World War II. Clinton's return to Arkansas for the execution was framed in an article for The New York Times as a possible political move to counter "soft on crime" accusations. [366] From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century. [198], Seeking to weaken Hussein's grip on power, Clinton signed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 into law on October 31, 1998, which instituted a policy of "regime change" against Iraq, though it explicitly stated it did not provide for direct intervention on the part of American military forces. Under Clinton, the United States had a projected federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969. In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took four trips on Jeffrey Epstein's airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the work of the Clinton Foundation. Formally organized as the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the New Democrats argued that in light of President Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in 1984, the Democratic Party needed to adopt a more centrist political stance in order to succeed at the national level. [28][29], He subsequently decided not to join the ROTC, saying in a letter to the officer in charge of the program that he opposed the war, but did not think it was honorable to use ROTC, National Guard, or Reserve service to avoid serving in Vietnam. In the affair later known as "Troopergate", the officers alleged that they had arranged sexual liaisons for Clinton back when he was governor of Arkansas. She added, "Bill has worked really hard ... we had to pay off all our debts ... he had to make double the money because of, obviously, taxes; and then pay off the debts, and get us houses, and take care of family members. [268], Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged that Clinton had raped her in the spring of 1978, although she said she did not remember the exact date. [53] Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University,[1] University College, Oxford, and Yale Law School. "The Evolution of American Grand Strategy and the War on Terrorism: Clinton and Bush Perspectives". [183] The stated reasoning behind the intervention was to stop the ethnic cleansing (and what the Clinton administration labeled genocide)[184][185] of Albanians by Yugoslav anti-guerilla military units. In 2018, Clinton was asked in several interviews about whether he should have resigned, and he said he had made the right decision in not resigning. In 1969, Aller received a draft letter that mandated deployment to the Vietnam War. In it he seemed to revert to classic Clinton, circa the Bubba years, and not in a good way. [159] The obstruction charge was based on his actions to conceal his relationship with Lewinsky before and after that deposition. Socks Clinton (1989 – February 20, 2009) was the pet cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton and his family while he was in the White House . Frank Newport, [Americans Say Reagan Is the Greatest U.S. President: Lincoln and Clinton next on the list; Washington fifth], Gallup (February 18, 2011). [255][256][257], In 1994, Paula Jones initiated a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton, claiming he had made unwanted advances towards her in 1991; Clinton denied the allegations. [96][97][98], On May 19, 1993, Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office. After only about a month, Clinton postponed his summer plans to be a coordinator for the George McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California. [95], President Clinton's attorney general Janet Reno authorized the FBI's use of armored vehicles to deploy tear gas into the buildings of the Branch Davidian community near Waco, Texas, in hopes of ending a 51 day siege. [53][165] Most of the controversy surrounded Marc Rich and allegations that Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham, accepted payments in return for influencing the president's decision-making regarding the pardons. [139][140] Despite the evidence,[139][141] the Chinese government denied all accusations. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost? General Wesley Clark was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and oversaw the mission. "The Clinton Factor: The Effects of Clinton's Personal Image in 2000 Presidential Primaries and in the General Election", This page was last edited on 9 March 2021, at 01:29. [193] In 2001, the U.N.-supervised Supreme Court of Kosovo ruled that genocide (the intent to destroy a people) did not take place, but recognized "a systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments" with the intention being the forceful departure of the Albanian population. [195] Slobodan Milošević, the president of Yugoslavia at the time of the atrocities, was eventually brought to trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague on charges including crimes against humanity and war crimes for his role in the war. [223], Throughout Clinton's first term, his job approval rating fluctuated in the 40s and 50s. Words cannot describe my grief as I write of the passing of President Bill Clinton the Cat. [2] The impeachment was based on accusations that Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice for the purpose of concealing his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern. [77], Clinton was still the governor of Arkansas while campaigning for U.S. president, and he returned to his home state to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed. His friendship with Bill Clinton took them both to the White House. Jeffrey A. Roth and Christopher S. Koper, "Impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban: 1994–96". Clinton's office released a statement in 2019 saying, "President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. [107] Their position was that Clinton should have integrated the military by executive order, noting that President Harry S. Truman used executive order to racially desegregate the armed forces. [157] After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed "substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment",[158] the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections. [311] Funds began pouring into Haiti, which led to funding becoming available for Caracol Industrial Park in a part of the country unaffected by the earthquake. [81] Many Democrats who had supported Ronald Reagan and Bush in previous elections switched their support to Clinton. President-Elect Bill Clinton, left, meets with Vice President-elect Al Gore, center, and Vernon Jordan at the Governor’s Mansion in Little Rock, Ark. On April 4, then candidate Clinton met with members of ACT UP and other leading AIDS advocates to discuss his AIDS agenda and agreed to make a major AIDS policy speech, to have people with HIV speak to the Democratic Convention, and to sign onto the AIDS United Action five point plan. The bill passed the house with 234 votes against 200 opposed (132 Republicans and 102 Democrats voting in favor; 156 Democrats, 43 Republicans, and one independent against).
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