Bill Clinton | 60-Second Presidents | PBS

Here's everything you need to know about Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, in just 60 seconds.

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"AH DID NAWT HAVE SEHXUAL RELASHUNS WITH THAT WHUMAN" That quote still cracks me up.

[lesliesexcitingnews]

Left out the Monica Lewinsky issue. Haha!

[TheStewieOne]

I think you're forgotten something else he did and reason why he was being impeached.

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Why are Reagan and Nixons video comments turned off?

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William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992.

A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School.

He met Hillary Rodham at Yale and married her in 1975.

After graduating from Yale, Clinton returned to Arkansas and won election as the Attorney General of Arkansas, serving from 1977 to 1979.

As Governor of Arkansas, Clinton overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association.

Clinton was elected president in 1992, defeating incumbent Republican opponent George H. W. Bush.

At age 46, he became the third-youngest president and the first from the Baby Boomer generation.

Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement, but failed to pass his plan for national health care reform.

In the 1994 elections, the Republican Party won unified control of the Congress for the first time in 40 years.

In 1996, Clinton became the first Democrat since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be elected to a second full term.

Clinton passed welfare reform and the State Children's Health Insurance Program, as well as financial deregulation measures, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for matters related to a scandal that involved White House employee Monica Lewinsky.

Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in 1999 and proceeded to complete his term in office.

During the last three years of Clinton's presidency, the Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus, the first such surplus since 1969.

In foreign policy, Clinton ordered U.S. military intervention in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, signed the Iraq Liberation Act in opposition to Saddam Hussein, and participated in the 2000 Camp David Summit to advance the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.

Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U.S. president since World War II, and he has continually received high ratings in public opinion polls of U.S. presidents.

Since leaving office, Clinton has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work.

He created the William J. Clinton Foundation to address international causes, such as the prevention of AIDS and global warming.

He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, including his wife's presidential campaigns and Barack Obama's presidential campaigns.

In 2004, Clinton published his autobiography, My Life.

In 2009, Clinton was named the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, he teamed with George W. Bush to form the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

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yesterday I went to a museum that was From the Ross Perot fam

[VincentFarides]

You know, It’s weird all his friends that he liked to go on planes to private islands with keep committing suicide and have the autopsies say they were murdered. Odd right.

[eunaekim]

As a person, this guy was just plain Nucking Futs. But he has my respect as a president, because of the whole health care reform thing. Ditto for Truman and Obama.

[pervertedstonerreborn]

He did it with that chick on that magazine cover. ~ Butthead 1993

[jkrazy]

Battle of Mogadishu, the Balkan War and genocide... also some great things during his tenure.

[MelissaJohnson]

80s and 90s were a repeat!!! it's such a joke!!!

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