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Clinton's and family
James Clinton's wife was Mary DeWitt, daughter of an old Dutch family, and his second son was DeWitt Clinton, later Governor of New York.
An exhibit on Clinton's saxophone and another on family pets Socks and Buddy are also on the second floor.

Clinton's and are
* 1996 – U. S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
Phayer's Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War ( 2008 ) makes use of many documents that have recently come to light due to Bill Clinton's 1997 executive order declassifying wartime and postwar documents, many of which are currently at the US National Archives and Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Thomason and his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, are close friends of President Bill Clinton and U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and played a major role in President Clinton's election campaigns.
The Governor's records are often mentioned with the claim that they hold secrets about Clinton's association with HMA.
However, Clinton's sentence commutation was ostensibly motivated by the harsh minimum sentencing for drug related offences as part of the War on Drugs, but it is claimed that Carlos A. Vignali was a relatively big offender who was probably less deserving of a pardon than many other convicted persons who are not as well connected.
Clinton assumed office at the tail end of a recession, and the economic theories he utilized and implemented are claimed by his supporters to have eventually led to a strong recovery, though Clinton's opponents deny this.
Indeed, Keelin McDonel states in the left-leaning political journal The New Republic that " conservatives are launching a preemptive strike on what Klein identifies as one of Clinton's central mantras: ' victimhood can be a political plus.
Clinton's most recognizable scores are probably Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ( and its sequels ); the martial arts fantasy Mortal Kombat and its sequel Mortal Kombat: Annihilation ; and Showtime's series Red Shoe Diaries.
In 2001, The Wall Street Journal reported that " New York literary circles are buzzing with vitriol over Sen. Clinton's refusal, so far, to share credit with any writer who helps on her book.
Clinton's brainchild Umläut are currently recording an album slated for release in February 2009.
In late March, he was reported being somewhat skeptical of Hillary Clinton's electability, citing that her negatives are " widely known ", and adding, regarding Barack Obama, that, " what we don't know is whether the other shoe is going to drop for Mr. Obama.

Clinton's and little
Clinton's response, once he recovered his temper, was to issue another proclamation little different from the first.
Under President Bill Clinton some testing continued, but the project received little funding despite Clinton's supportive remarks on 5 September 2000 that " such a system, if it worked properly, could give us an extra dimension of insurance in a world where proliferation has complicated the task of preserving peace.
The essence of Clinton's election year critique was that Bush had done too little, not too much.
However, the various investigations and conclusions had little effect on Hillary Clinton's career, as she won the 2000 election to the Senate, won re-election in 2006, and became a strong contender for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2008 presidential election.

Clinton's and .
The Congressional Budget Office reported a budget surplus between the years 1998 and 2000, the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
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.
Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...
" Although legal, Clinton's actions were criticized by conservatives and some Vietnam veterans during his presidential campaign in 1992.
Some suggested Schwarzlose's unexpected voter turnout foreshadowed Clinton's defeat in the general election that year by Republican challenger Frank D. White.
The Arkansas Education Standards Committee, chaired by Clinton's wife, attorney and Legal Services Corporation chair Hillary Rodham Clinton, succeeded in reforming the education system, transforming it from the worst in the nation into one of the best.
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.
Clinton's election ended twelve years of Republican rule of the White House and twenty of the previous twenty-four years.
The Congressional Budget Office reported budget surpluses of $ 69 billion in 1998, $ 126 billion in 1999, and $ 236 billion in 2000, during the last three years of Clinton's presidency.
Clinton's advisers pressured him to raise taxes on the theory that a smaller federal budget deficit would reduce bond interest rates.
This was one of the most prominent items on Clinton's legislative agenda, and resulted from a task force headed by Hillary Clinton.
However, John F. Harris, a biographer of Clinton's, states the program failed because of a lack of coordination within the White House.
It was the first major legislative defeat of Clinton's administration.
Clinton's defenders argue that an executive order might have prompted the Senate to write the exclusion of gays into law, potentially making it harder to integrate the military in the future.
Clinton's 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill made many changes to U. S. law, including the expansion of the death penalty to include crimes not resulting in death, such as running a large-scale drug enterprise.

family and origins
Some information is known about the family origins of Amasis: his mother was a certain Tashereniset as a bust statue of this lady, which is today located in the British Museum, shows.
Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.
Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.
Spokesperson for the original family, Mr Rod Patch, recalls the origins of the shape of the current " Bundy Bottle ".
In his A New History of the Double Bass, Paul Brun asserts, with many references, that the double bass has origins as the true bass of the violin family.
From the Renaissance to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy and pompous descriptions of their family origins, career, virtues and immediate family, often in Latin.
** French people, inhabitants of France or people having family origins in France
His Latin-speaking peasant family is believed to have been of Thraco-Roman or Illyro-Roman origins.
Because written sources covering the era are scarce, Mindaugas ' origins and family tree have not been conclusively established.
Bernardo was born in Pisa, but little is known about his origins and family except that he was son of a certain Godius.
From the 16th century he is commonly identified as member of the family of Paganelli di Montemagno, which belonged to the Pisan aristocracy, but this has not been proven and contradicts earlier testimonies that suggest he was a man of rather humble origins.
The remarkable vase would have been seen by most of the people with power in Rome, who could give him support and who would know his family and its history but not his origins!
Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
Sheridan Le Fanu was born at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot origins.
The Trojan origins of Rome became particularly important in the propaganda of Julius Caesar, whose family claimed descent from Venus through Aeneas's son Iulus ( hence the Latin gens name Iulius ), and during the reign of Augustus ; see for instance the Tabulae Iliacae and the " Troy Game " presented frequently by the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Much work on Bloomsbury continues to focus on the group ’ s class origins and alleged elitism, their satire, their atheism, their oppositional politics and liberal economics, their non-abstract art, their modernist fiction, their art and literary criticism, and their non-nuclear family and sexual arrangements.
His family was of humble origins.
( Tallinn archivist J. Rajandi claimed in the 1930s that Rosenberg's family had Estonian origins.
The concept of drive letters, as used today, presumably owes its origins to IBM's VM family of operating systems, dating back to CP / CMS in 1967 ( and its research predecessor CP-40 ), by way of CP / M.
The origins of the family, probably of Frankish nobility, date back to the time of Charlemagne in the early 9th century when they settled in Lombardy.
The next year his family finally consented to his marriage to Louise-Eléonore Broudou, a young creole of modest origins whom he met on Ile de France ( present-day Mauritius ).
For most of her adult life, Anna Edwards was estranged from her family and took pains to disguise her modest origins by writing that she had been born a Crawford in Caernarfon and giving her father's rank as captain.
He was aware that his family had Jewish origins, and in the course of his studies, he began to consider a return to Judaism.
Modern historians suspect this maternal connection to be a genealogical fabrication created by his son Constantine I, and that his family were of humble origins.

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