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    Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1993. Clinton survived impeachment after a sex scandal involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He cut the annual budget deficit in half during his first term through economic recovery and job growth. Clinton's presidency was also marked by passing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays in the military and ongoing efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.

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    Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1993. Clinton survived impeachment after a sex scandal involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He cut the annual budget deficit in half during his first term through economic recovery and job growth. Clinton's presidency was also marked by passing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays in the military and ongoing efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.

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    Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He previously served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1993. Clinton survived impeachment after a sex scandal involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He cut the annual budget deficit in half during his first term through economic recovery and job growth. Clinton's presidency was also marked by passing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy for gays in the military and ongoing efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.

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    William J.

    Clinton

    •
    Bill Clinton was president of the United States for two terms, from
    1993 to 2001, and is best known as the president who survived
    impeachment after a sex scandal.

    • William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton was born in Hope, Arkansas, on


    August 19, 1946.
    • Clinton was governor of Arkansas (1979-81, 1983-93).
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    42nd president of the United States (1993-2001).
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    His mother, Virginia Kelly, named him William Jefferson Blyth IV.
    •
    Malco movie theater 817 Central Ave. This theater was a favorite
    place for Clinton and his friends to while away summer afternoons.
    •
    Clinton spent the 1970s as a law professor and then Attorney
    General of Arkansas, and for most of the 1980s he was Governor of
    Arkansas.
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    His first term was characterized by a strong economic recovery,
    and in 1996 he beat Republican Bob Dole and was re-elected.
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    His second term was dominated by scandal: accusations of
    corruption and investigations into rumors of his marital infidelity.
    •
    Clinton was accused of committing perjury and obstruction of
    justice in his attempt to cover up an extra-marital affair with a White
    House intern, Monica Lewinsky. In the subsequent senate trial, Clinton
    was acquitted of the charges and remained in office.
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    His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected as a U.S. Senator from
    New York in 2000, the first time a First Lady had ever been elected to
    public office.
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    Clinton's father, William Blythe, died in a car accident before
    Clinton was born; after his mother remarried, the future president took
    the last name of his stepfather, Roger Clinton.
    •
    While in office, Clinton was sued by Paula Jones, an Arkansas state
    employee who claimed Clinton had sexually harassed her in 1991.
    •
    Bill and Hillary Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, who attended
    Stanford University while her father was president.
    •
    Clinton's memoir, "My Life," was published in 2004.
    •
    He attended Georgetown University, the University of Oxford (as a
    Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School, then taught law at the
    University of Arkansas.
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    He settled for a compromise policy, dubbed the ”Don't Ask, Don't Tell,
    Don't Pursue” policy, that satisfied no one.
    •
    In his first term, Clinton cut the annual deficits in half, laying the
    groundwork for growth, as well as lower unemployment and inflation.
    •
    Throughout his Presidency, Clinton remained a centrist, attacked
    by conservatives for his defense of affirmative action programs and
    abortion rights and attacked by liberals for his willingness to cut
    domestic programs.
    •
    Capturing Osama bin Laden has been an objective of the United
    States government since the presidency of Bill Clinton.
    •
    On June 13, 2007, Clinton was honored by the Global Business
    Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria alongside eight
    multinational-companies for his work to defeat HIV/AIDS.

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