The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

Prior to the tunnel being built, the LIRR's western terminus was Atlantic Street at Clinton Street.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

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

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe, III, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

Clinton was also a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason.

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 ...

With only minor opposition in the primary and no opposition at all in the general election, Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976.

Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

Due to his youthful appearance, Clinton was often called the " Boy Governor ", a referent that continues to be used to refer to him during his gubernatorial era on occasion.

As Clinton once joked, he was the youngest ex-governor in the nation's history.

According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.

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

In 1987, there was media speculation Clinton would enter the race after then-New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

Their television appearance was a calculated risk, but Clinton regained several delegates.

However, former California Governor Jerry Brown was scoring victories and Clinton had yet to win a significant contest outside his native South.

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.

Clinton, as the newly elected Governor of Arkansas, meeting with President Jimmy Carter in 1978

In the 1996 presidential election, Clinton was re-elected, receiving 49. 2 % of the popular vote over Republican Bob Dole ( 40. 7 % of the popular vote ) and Reform candidate Ross Perot ( 8. 4 % of the popular vote ), becoming the first Democratic incumbent since Lyndon Johnson to be elected to a second term and the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected President more than once.

* 2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.

In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected president of the United States.

By the time Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, Vince Foster was at the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment,

** Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, leading policy proposals, traveling abroad as a State Department representative to 82 nations, advising her husband, and being elected a Senator ( in 2000 ), is the most openly empowered and politically powerful First Lady in American history ; Madeleine Albright and Janet Reno take two of the cabinet's top jobs as United States Secretary of State (# 1 ), and United States Attorney General (# 4 ), respectively.

* November 3 – United States presidential election, 1992: Bill Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.

George Clinton was elected vice-president and went on to serve under both Jefferson and his successor, James Madison.

Clinton was a Freemason, and in 1806, he was elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New York.

The Presidents who have been prohibited from continuing to seek election to the presidency under the amendment are Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush ; all were elected to the presidency twice.

The six elected Trustees were Bruce Panchard, C. C. Gant, George Clinton, H. E. Stewart, W. R. Rogers, and R. N. Long.

With the final withdrawal of U. S. troops, and Aristide's duly elected successor installed in office in February 1996, the Pentagon and the Clinton administration could label the Haïtian operation a success up to that point.

President Clinton took the advice of these elected officials and withdrew her nomination, claiming he was unfamiliar with her writing and that he didn't realize that she advocated pure racial quotas as opposed to affirmative action, as opponents had charged.

Soon after Clinton was elected, Hightower became a critic of the president.

* 1804-U. S. presidential election, 1804: Thomas Jefferson reelected president ; George Clinton elected vice president

* 1808-U. S. presidential election, 1808: James Madison elected president, George Clinton continues as vice president

Governor George Clinton, looking to cause a rift between the Livingstons and the Schuyler family ( Hamilton was Philip Schuyler's son-in-law ), discreetly supported King, and as a result he was elected in 1789.

Today we endorse a second Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama, with the hope that if elected, he governs from the middle as Mr. Clinton did.

Holbrooke was considered a likely candidate for Secretary of State had Kerry or Hillary Clinton been elected President.

She was elected as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1990 and resigned in 1993 when she was appointed Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development by President Bill Clinton.

As president, Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

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.

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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* George Clinton ( vice president ) ( 1739 – 1812 ), Vice President of the United States and Governor of New York

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