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Clinton and benefited
In the third White v. Clinton race, Clinton again easily prevailed, once again having benefited from a nationally Democratic year.
Bartlett claims that by restructuring Social Security, Clinton would have both benefited the nation as well as his party.

Clinton and from
* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics
Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.
The company name is derived from the name of one of the company's founders, Lionel Martin, and from the Aston Clinton Hillclimb near Aston Clinton in Buckinghamshire.
William Jefferson " Bill " 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.
He is married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has served as the United States Secretary of State since 2009 and was a Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009.
In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton, Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas with his brother.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Clinton returned to Arkansas and became a law professor at the University of Arkansas.
Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.
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.
This was one of the most prominent items on Clinton's legislative agenda, and resulted from a task force headed by Hillary Clinton.
That month, Clinton implemented a Department of Defense directive known as " Don't Ask, Don't Tell ", which allowed gay men and women to serve in the armed services provided they kept their sexuality a secret, and forbade the military from inquiring about an individual's sexual orientation.
" Clinton himself stated that DOMA was something " which the Republicans put on the ballot to try to get the base vote for President Bush up, I think it ’ s obvious that something had to be done to try to keep the Republican Congress from presenting that.
Appointed by Clinton, the U. S. Commission on Immigration Reform recommended reducing legal immigration from about 800, 000 people a year to about 550, 000.
Capturing Osama bin Laden had been an objective of the United States government from the presidency of Bill Clinton until bin Laden's death in 2011.
Clinton drew strong support from the African American community and made improving race relations a major theme of his presidency.
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 ".
* Clinton Presidential Materials Project Press releases and speech transcripts from the administration.
* Oral History Interview with Bill Clinton from Oral Histories of the American South
* Extensive essays on Bill Clinton and shorter essays on each member of his cabinet and First Lady from the Miller Center of Public Affairs
Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

Clinton and economy
Clinton also oversaw a boom of the U. S. economy.
* 1995 – President Bill Clinton authorizes a $ 20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
However, as the economy was the main issue, Bush's campaign floundered across the nation, even in strongly Republican areas, and Clinton maintained leads with over 50 percent of the vote nationwide consistently, while Bush typically saw numbers in the upper 30s.
Eagle Grange No. 1 in Clinton Township was organized on March 4, 1871 by a group of rural farmers who had become concerned about the rising costs of farming in the post Civil War economy.
In her 2010 visit to China, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on authorities in Beijing to continue buying US Treasurys, saying it would help jumpstart the flagging US economy and stimulate imports of Chinese goods.
However, following the interview Clinton retracted those statements and said that in his mind he received excellent advice on the economy and the financial system from Rubin and others.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the village's economy mainly relied upon fishing, the two farms and former manors of Trefusis ( the original seat of the Trefusis family, Barons Clinton since 1791 ) and Tregew and Falmouth Docks.
During Clinton ’ s presidency, these acts had brought the economy out of its deficit and into a surplus.
This low rate reflects the healthy economy of Clinton ’ s Presidency because, as most economists agree, unemployment rates tend to be low in times of economic growth periods.
We can see through a simple correlation that Bill Clinton ’ s economic policies promoted a healthy economy and, as a result, had lower unemployment rates ( See Figure 5 ).
He was narrowly upset in a 1982 mid-term election characterized by voter anger over a poor economy and the strong grassroots campaign by Democrat Bruce Morrison, a Bill Clinton classmate at Yale Law School.

Clinton and which
With no major Southern state remaining, Clinton targeted New York, which had many delegates.
During the campaign, questions of conflict of interest regarding state business and the politically powerful Rose Law Firm, at which Hillary Rodham Clinton was a partner, arose.
During his presidency, Clinton advocated for a wide variety of legislation and programs, much of which was enacted into law or was implemented by the executive branch.
Shortly after taking office, Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 on February 5, which required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition.
Clinton signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 in August of that year, which passed Congress without a Republican vote.
Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law on November 30, 1993, which imposed a five-day waiting period on handgun purchases.
On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.
On October 10, 2000, Clinton signed into law the U. S .– China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations ( PNTR ) trade status to People's Republic of China.
In March 2010, a Newsmax / Zogby poll asking Americans which of the current living former presidents they think is best equipped to deal with the problems the country faces today, found that a wide margin of respondents would pick Bill Clinton.
In 1994, Paula Jones brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton, claiming he made unwanted advances in 1991, which he denied.
During the deposition for the Jones lawsuit, which was held at the White House, Clinton denied having sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky a denial that became the basis for the impeachment charge of perjury.
Also in 1998, Juanita Broaddrick alleged Clinton had raped her though she did not remember the exact date, which may have been 1978.
This foundation includes the Clinton Foundation HIV and AIDS Initiative ( CHAI ), which strives to combat that disease, and has worked with the Australian government toward that end.
Clinton also spoke in favor of California Proposition 87 on alternative energy, which was voted down.
* Lucky Bastard ( 1999 ) A comic novel in which a likable but amoral, devious and oversexed politician ( meant to invoke Bill Clinton ) is controlled by a female eastern-bloc subversive.
The Clinton Administration on December 21, 1993, issued Defense Directive 1304. 26, which directed that military applicants were not to be asked about their sexual orientation.
One was a count of perjury in a civil deposition in Paula Jones's sexual harassment lawsuit against Clinton ( by a 205 – 229 vote ) and an article which accused Clinton of abuse of power by a 48 – 285 vote.
The historian Clinton Rossiter called the Federalist Papers “ the most important work in political science that ever has been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States .” They were not scholarly arguments or impartial justifications for the constitution, but political polemics intended to assist the federalists in New York, which was the only state to have a coordinated anti-federalist movement.
Clinton had also said, " there is not a sexual relationship, an improper sexual relationship or any other kind of improper relationship " which he defended as truthful on August 17, 1998, hearing because of the use of the present tense, famously arguing " it depends on what the meaning of the word ' is ' is " ( i. e., he was not, at the time he made that statement, still having a sexual relationship with Lewinsky ).
Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that " goodness overcame evil ".
In the last six months of the Clinton administration, United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced that the term " rogue state " would be abolished in June 2000, in favour of " states of concern ," as three of the rogue states ( Libya, Iran and North Korea ) no longer met the four transgressions which defined a rogue state.

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