Presidency of Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton is noted as one of the most successful presidents of all time. Coming from the small town of Hope, Arkansas Bill would go on to become the governor of Arkansas in the late 1970s. He announced he would be running for president in 1992. With the backing of Al Gore as his running mate he would go on to win the popular vote with only a forty six percent split between himself and George H.W. Bush. He had a reputation that would proceed him and ultimately overshadow most of the…

Ronald Reagan’s presidency set many dangerous precedents for dealing with budgetary policy, making the process of dealing with deficits much more difficult for his successors. Reagan believed strongly in increased defense spending, and was also completely convinced that lowering taxes would spur economic growth to cancel out his increased spending, the mantra of supply side economics. However, most of Reagan’s budgetary promises were empty, and as stated by Hager and Pianin, Reagan and his staff…

In American history, impeachment is a rare case, with only 3 U.S. Presidents, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton having gone through the impeachment process. In Jewish history, Moshe was “impeached” by God, and albeit different circumstances, was put through a similar process. To be impeached is to accuse or charge a public office holder, or in Moshe’s case, a leader, with a crime. Although only 2 U.S. presidents have been impeached; 17 other federal officials have been successfully…

president the United States ever had to been William Jefferson Clinton, commonly known as Bill Clinton, the 42nd president from 1993-2001. He was born in 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, and is one of the few one percent that made it from rags to riches. He graduated from Georgetown University, attended Oxford University, and earned a law degree from Yale University (Hamilton, 2003). His profession as a lawyer led to his political career. In 1974, Clinton became a Democratic leader in the U.S. House of…

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton along with the major third party candidate, Gary Johnson. Each one of these candidates has there own views and perspectives on different topics. Donald Trump is the presidential nominee of the Republican party. Trump is a world renowned businessman and television producer. He has had a very successful career and has been driven, by his head strong personality. Trump was born in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946, which makes him…

The 1990s began with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, George Bush and Ross Perot. The 2 questions we have to ask is how a sitting president with an 80% approval rating in 1990 lost the election 2 years later and what caused the right to left political shift. Republican’s seemed slightly lost after the Persian Gulf War and were leaning to a more conservation right. With no major foreign affairs to focus on all eyes were on the economy. George bush then uttered those 6 famous words…

15 years ago January 26, 1998 Bill Clinton said “I did not have sexual relation with that woman”. August. 17, 1998 Mr. Clinton came out and admitted he’s Sins. He admitted he had a private relationship with Monica. Why would A man of his power lie about having an intimate relationship with Monica Lewinsky? He didn’t only lie about having private relationship with Ms. Lewinsky. He lied to the American people. The American people viewed Bill Clinton as a guy with great personal charisma, a voice…

When Clinton first started running for President his main goals he wanted to accomplish included health care reform, improving the school system, and strengthening the economy and creating new jobs. Clinton’s agenda was conservative much like this quote from David Harsanyi, "Despite bringing some big liberal ideas, earthy debauchery and all manner of corruption to the Oval Office," Harsanyi writes, Mr. Clinton "presided over a thriving economy, declared the era of big government over and signed…

republican party and 8 in the Democratic party, and all candidates but two dropped out. The last candidates remaining were Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, and the election named after them was called “Crooked vs. Crazy”. This election, to most Americans, did not have the most honorable candidates to vote for, but it was a matter of who was the better candidate. Hilary Rodham Clinton, former First Lady was the Democratic Candidate for the 2016 election, and was believed to be the first woman…

people are live in an economically stable society and a peaceful one also. Some presidents sometimes struggle to find and create an economic recovery policy that can stabilize and grow the country. However, in the cases of both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, both former presidents found ways to boost the economy. Although, Clinton’s economic policies did better than Reagan’s, both were successful in different ways. Clinton’s economic policy lowers interest rates, raised minimum wage, and the…