Clinton's political opponents charge that to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War during his college years, he used the political influence of a U. S. Senator, who employed him as an aide.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs call Foster " one of the best lawyers I've ever known ," and compared him in style and substance to Gregory Peck's Atticus Finch role in the classic 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Though Clinton's popularity had waned by the mid 1980s, he experienced something of a resurgence in the early 1990s, as many rappers cited him as an influence and began sampling his songs.

In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a graduate of Lewis & Clark College, was hired to work as an intern at the White House during Clinton's first term, and began a personal relationship with him, the details of which she later confided to her friend and Defense department co-worker Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded their telephone conversations.

A much-quoted statement from Clinton's grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word " is.

Lewinsky's testimony that Clinton concealed gifts was contradicted by both Clinton's testimony and that of his personal secretary Betty Currie, who each said that it was Lewinsky who asked him for some gifts and that he tended to give a number of his staff gifts as an act of courtesy.

Bumpers, a self-declared close friend of President Clinton, gave an impassioned closing argument in defense of him during Clinton's impeachment trial.

Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign, alleging that she had had a 12-year relationship with him.

Yousef thought of several ways to kill the president, including placing nuclear bombs on Clinton's motorcade route, firing a Stinger missile at Air Force One or the presidential limousine, launching theater ballistic missiles at Manila and or killing him with phosgene, a chemical weapon.

He was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined.

In 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a reporter asked him what he would do if he were in President Bill Clinton's position.

Clinton's victory in the Florida straw poll over Harkin made him the early front-runner in the post-Cuomo vacuum.

The Washington Post said his speech, which aired in the hour before former president Bill Clinton's highly anticipated convention speech, failed to live up to the high expectations that were set for him, writing, " it was immediately clear that O ’ Malley ’ s speech was not generating nearly the same buzz as more-spirited addresses by some of the party ’ s other rising stars ... To some, O ’ Malley ’ s speech seemed canned.

Tanner became nationally known briefly when it was alleged that President Clinton was on the telephone with him in 1995 during one of Clinton's sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky.

A much-quoted statement from Clinton's grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word " is.

Some published reports have given him credit for Clinton's " 100, 000 cops " proposal during the 1992 campaign ; at a minimum, he worked closely with Clinton aide Bruce Reed in formulating it.

In December 1993, when he became White House Deputy Chief of Staff, The New York Times described him as " a longtime friend " of Clinton's.

After Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was over, Bill Clinton continued to raise funds to help pay off her campaign debt.

Political adviser Dick Morris urged Clinton to raise huge sums of campaign funds via soft money for an unprecedented early TV blitz of swing states promoting Clinton's agenda and record.

However, it fell to 34. 5 % of GDP by the end of Clinton's presidency due in part to decreased military spending, increased taxes ( in 1990, 1993 and 1997 ), and increased tax revenue resulting from the Dot-com bubble .< ref >

During Clinton's term, Arkansas performed its first executions since 1964 ( the death penalty had been re-enacted on March 23, 1973 ).

Clinton's return to Arkansas for the execution was framed in a The New York Times article as a possible political move to counter " soft on crime " accusations.

Clinton won the 1992 presidential election ( 43. 0 % of the vote ) against Republican incumbent George H. W. Bush ( 37. 4 % of the vote ) and billionaire populist Ross Perot, who ran as an independent ( 18. 9 % of the vote ) on a platform focusing on domestic issues ; a significant part of Clinton's success was Bush's steep decline in public approval.

This was one of the most prominent items on Clinton's legislative agenda, and resulted from a task force headed by Hillary Clinton.

In 1990, he appeared on " Kool Thing ", a song by the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and along with Flavor Flav, he sang on George Clinton's song " Tweakin '", which appears on his 1989 album The Cinderella Theory.

In the late 1990s, Kemp remained outspoken on political issues: he was critical of Clinton's International Monetary Fund lax policies toward South Korea.

With President Bill Clinton's assistance, on 30 April 1994 Latvia and Russia signed a troop withdrawal agreement.

Bill Clinton's notes for address to the Oklahoma City bombing victims on April 23, 1995

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

Bill Clinton's 1997 address was the first broadcast available live on the World Wide Web.

Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts won the New Hampshire primary on February 18 but Clinton's second place finish, helped by his speech labeling himself " The Comeback Kid ," energized his campaign.

The race narrowed, as Perot's numbers significantly improved as Clinton's numbers declined, while Bush's numbers remained more or less the same from earlier in the race as Perot and Bush began to hammer at Clinton on character issues once again.

Then it was revealed that Livingston — who had been publicly critical of President Bill Clinton's perjury during his sexual harassment-had engaged in an extramarital affair himself, and he opted to resign from the House despite being urged to stay on by House Democratic leader Gephardt.

In the message he praised Clinton's decision to end the trade embargo on Vietnam.

U. S. President Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, also feared that a Russian collapse could create a panic on world money markets ( and it indeed did help bring down one major US hedge fund Long Term Capital Management ).

His son, Mark Brzezinski ( b. 1965 ), a lawyer who served on President Clinton's National Security Council as an expert on Russia and Southeastern Europe and who was a partner in McGuire Woods LLP, serves as the US ambassador to Sweden.

The city converted its railroad depot to a museum on Clinton's life.

Clinton's disturbed brother Doyle is still on the governor's payroll as the keeper of a lighthouse that has not been in use for years.

President Clinton's administration continued to emphasize a collegial approach within the NSC on national security matters.

" Vast right-wing conspiracy " was a theory advanced by then First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1998 in defense of her husband, President Bill Clinton, and his administration during the Lewinsky scandal, characterizing the Lewinsky charges as the latest in a long, organized, collaborative series of charges by Clinton's political enemies.

Clinton's residents could fit into one main elementary school, but because of all the rural area around Clinton it makes more sense to group all the students into three smaller schools.

Since this arrangement would be no longer possible in the Clintons ' smaller home in New York, Socks was left under the care of Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie.

Many factors contributed to the cancellation: rising cost estimates ; poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials ; the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union ; belief that many smaller scientific experiments of equal merit could be funded for the same cost ; Congress's desire to generally reduce spending ; the reluctance of Texas Governor Ann Richards ; and President Bill Clinton's initial lack of support for a project begun during the administrations of Richards's predecessor, Bill Clements, and Clinton's predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.