1. 42nd President: Bill Clinton.
[April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831]
A
Presentation
byCLINTON MATHEWS

2. {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.

3. {F a m i l y.}
>>
• 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.

4. {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:
A. Governor of Arkansas
B. Senator from Arkansas
C. Vice president of the
United States
D. Governor of Mississippi

5. {Domestic Policy:}
>>In 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.

6. P r e s i d e n c y:
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 country’s 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.

7. {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.

8. Successes and Failures
Success!
-North American Free Trade
Agreement
-Medicare Reform
-New Welfare Program
-Major "Crime Bill' legislation
Failures!
-Universal Healthcare
-1993 Campaign Finance
Reform
The only two not passed by
congress

9. "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

10. 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.