* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1995 – U. S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

* 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an " improper physical relationship " with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

* 1946 – Bill Clinton, American politician, 42nd President of the United States

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.

* 1996 – Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

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.

Clinton ran for President of the Student Council while attending the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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

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

Governor and Mrs. Clinton attend the Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors in the White House with President Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1987.

While campaigning for U. S. President, the then Governor Clinton returned to Arkansas to see that Ricky Ray Rector would be executed.

Countries visited by President Clinton during his terms in office

Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993.

On May 19, 1993, Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office, causing a controversy even though the Travel Office staff served at the pleasure of the President, who could dismiss them without cause.

Their position was that Clinton should have integrated the military by executive order, noting that President Harry Truman used executive order to racially desegregate the armed forces.

" 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.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

President Bill Clinton ( center ), first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ( right ) and their daughter Chelsea Clinton ( left ) wave to watchers at a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, January 20, 1997.

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.

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

President Kennedy has indicated his dissatisfaction with its performance.

much of the glamor President Kennedy's Peace Corps may have held for some prospective applicants has been removed by Sargent Shriver, the head corpsman.

South Viet Nam has received $1,450,000,000 in United States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped up since Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson's visit last May.

`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.

President Kennedy has urged a peace race on disarmament that might be called `` Operation Survival '' which has many facets.

Certainly it isn't making the President happy, and he has been doing his apologetic best to explain how the budget got into its unbalanced condition, how he intends to economize wherever he can and how he hopes to do better next year.

In the Presidential box someone leaned over the balustrade and yelled: `` He has shot the President ''!!

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

The President of the United States, pursuant to a Joint Resolution of Congress, has issued a proclamation each year since 1933 declaring May 22nd to be National Maritime Day.

You can see it, for example, in the extensive efforts President Kennedy has made to enlist solid bipartisan support for his actions toward both Cuba and Laos ; ;

The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.

President Kennedy has asked that we become a physically fit nation.

William Walton, a writer-turned-painter, has been a long-time friend of the President.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

Ever since the fire of 1812 destroyed the beautiful furniture assembled by President Thomas Jefferson, the White House has collected a hodgepodge of period pieces, few of them authentic or aesthetic.

Their affection for their college home has even caused President Dickey to comment on this `` place loyalty '' as something rather specially Hanoverian.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Noting that President Kennedy has handed the Defense Department the major responsibility for the nation's civil defense program, Mr. Hawksley said the federal government would pay half the salary of a full-time local director.

And the election of President Kennedy has attracted new attention to the ethical climate of his home state.

Moreover, the President is meeting the Soviet leader at a time when the Administration has still not decided on the scope of America's firm foreign policy commitments.

The President of the United States has said: `` We will never negotiate out of fear, and we will never fear to negotiate ''.

His successor President Barack Obama has expressed his desire to recognize the Armenian Genocide during the electoral campaigns, but after being elected, has not used the word genocide in his first annual April 24 speech in 2009.