Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States (1993-2001) · United States · Politicians · Born 1946 · age 80

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The youngest two-term president of the Baby Boomer generation, who steered the longest peacetime economic expansion America had seen - then became only the second president impeached by the House, over lies about an affair with a White House intern.

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2013Presidential Medal of FreedomAward2011Grand Cross of the National Order of Honor and MeritAward2009Honorary Doctorate from the McGill UniversityAward2008OsgarAward2007TED PrizeAward2006J. William Fulbright PrizeAward2005Four Freedoms Award - Freedom MedalAwardFreedom AwardAward2001NAACP Image Award - President's AwardAward2000Charlemagne PrizeAward1997Doublespeak AwardAward1996“The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.”In their words25 October 1996From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996Read the whole statement

1995“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.”In their words15 October 1995Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut, October 15, 1995Read the whole statement

1993“Let me tell you something -- wait a minute. You know one things that's wrong with this country? Everybody gets a chance to have their fair say.”In their words28 May 1993Response to hecklers, courtyard of Philadelphia City Hall (May 28, 1993). Remarks at City Hall in Philadelphia, May 28, 1993Read the whole statement

“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.”In their words20 January 1993First inaugural address (January 20, 1993), Washington, D.C.Read the whole statement

President of the United StatesOffice1993-20011992“Now, I don't have all the answers, but I do know the old ways don't work. Trickledown economics has sure failed.”In their words16 July 1992William J. Clinton: "Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in New York," July 16, 1992.Read the whole statement

“When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two -- and didn't like it -- and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again.”In their words31 March 1992Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio fileRead the whole statement

President-elect of the United StatesOffice1992-19931983Governor of ArkansasOffice1983-19921979Governor of ArkansasOffice1979-19811977Attorney General of ArkansasOffice1977-19791968Rhodes ScholarshipAward1946Born19 August 1946

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Clinton's birthplace home in Hope, Arkansas

Clinton in Hot Springs High School's 1963 yearbook

Clinton ran for president of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Clinton meets with President Jimmy Carter, 1978.

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

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The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says.
Oct 25, 1996, From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996, Own words
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
Oct 15, 1995, Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center in Storrs, Connecticut, October 15, 1995, Own words
All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
Jan 24, 1995, State of the Union address (24 January 1995), Own words

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Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Barack Obama2013

Grand Cross of the National Order of Honor and Merit2011

Honorary Doctorate from the McGill University2009

Osgar2008

TED Prize2007

J. William Fulbright Prize2006

Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Medal2005

Freedom Award2005

NAACP Image Award - President's Award2001

Charlemagne Prize2000

Doublespeak Award1997

Rhodes Scholarship1968

Grand cross of the Order of the White Lion

Philadelphia Liberty Medal

Sergio Vieira de Mello Citizen of the World

James Parks Morton Interfaith Award

Golden Plate Award

Order of Logohu

Grand Collar of the Order of Good Hope

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class

St. George's Order of Victory

Order of State of Republic of Turkey

Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Grammy Awards

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Honorary Doctor of the Hofstra University

Order of Good Hope

Order of the White Lion

Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana

National Order of Honour and Merit

Presidential Medal of Distinction

Great Chain of Badr

Order of Mubarak the Great

47th Annual Grammy Awards

Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Order of Freedom

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Born in Arkansas in 1946, William Jefferson Clinton graduated from Georgetown and Yale Law School, where he met Hillary Rodham. He won the state attorney general seat, then served as Arkansas governor in non-consecutive stretches, overhauling education. Running as a "New Democrat" in 1992, he beat George H. W. Bush and Ross Perot to take the White House. His first term brought NAFTA, the Brady Act, crime legislation, and Supreme Court appointments of Ginsburg and Breyer, but a failed health care push and a 1994 midterm rout pushed him rightward. He won re-election in 1996 over Bob Dole, ordered intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oversaw NATO expansion. In 1998 his affair with Monica Lewinsky became public; by December the House impeached him for perjury and obstruction, though the Senate acquitted him two months later. He left office in 2001 with the joint-highest approval rating of any president, a budget surplus, and a record shadowed by scandal.

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