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

Two years later, the re-elected Clinton became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term as president.

Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any U. S. president since World War II.

Later, as president, Clinton was the first President to pardon a death-row inmate since the federal death penalty was reintroduced in 1988.

Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud as US president Clinton waves during the State of the Union address in 1997.

This made Clinton only the second U. S. president to be impeached ( the first being Andrew Johnson ).

The Gallup Organization published a poll in February 2007, a correspondents to name the greatest president in U. S. history ; Clinton came in fourth place, capturing 13 % of the vote.

In a 2006 Quinnipiac University poll asking respondents to name the best president since World War II, Clinton ranked number two behind Ronald Reagan.

However, in the same poll, when respondents were asked to name the worst president since World War II, Clinton was placed number three behind Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

As the first baby boomer president, Clinton was the first president in a half-century not to have been alive during World War II.

When Clinton played the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show, he was described by some religious conservatives as " the MTV president.

Standing at a height of ( 1. 88 m ), Clinton is tied with five others as the fourth-tallest president in the nation's history.

In 1998, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison called Clinton " the first Black president ", saying, " Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas ".

Fears were allayed August 27, 2008, when Clinton enthusiastically endorsed Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, saying that all his experience as president assures him that Obama is " ready to lead ".

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".

Some black activists were also offended, claiming Clinton used his knowledge of black culture to exploit black people like no other president before for political gain, while not serving black interests.

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His financial problems took a toll on his health, with Tompkins falling into alcoholism, and as vice president he at times presided over the Senate while drunk.

Former Irish president Mary Robinson, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, presided as Secretary-General.

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He was the youngest president of the university in its history and presided over the university during a bitter strike by its clerical and technical workers in 1984-85.

The replacement chief engineer was Guy P. Henry, who introduced molybdenum steel, an improved clutch design, and presided over the six-cylinders-only policy favored by new president Albert Russel Erskine who replaced Fred Fish in July 1915.

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Despite statements as a Senator, where he called for marijuana decriminalization, promises as a presidential candidate where he stated that marijuana laws needed to be reconsidered and explicit statements as president that he would respect state medical marijuana laws, Barack Obama has presided over 1. 7 million marijuana arrests and a nationwide campaign of raiding medical marijuana dispensaries.

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As mission president, he presided over the Canadian Mission of the LDS Church from 1959 to 1962, supervising church missionaries who were not much younger than he was.

On 15 November he delivered a speech in which he demanded that king Louis XVI should be brought to trial, and immediately afterwards was elected president of the Convention, over which he presided in his episcopal dress.

Embry-Riddle's third president was Steven M. Sliwa, who presided over the university from 1991 until 1998.

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After Perón was elected president in 1945, Cámpora led an independent coalition of laboriousts and radicals and won a seat in the house of representatives, which he presided during the period 1948 – 1952.

As president, Vázquez presided over considerable improvements in education and working conditions, a significant expansion of the welfare system, and a dramatic reduction in poverty, with the percentage of Uruguayans living in poverty falling from 32 % to 20 % of the population from 2004 to 2009.

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