Bill
Clinton - 42nd President of the United States
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William
Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) served
as the forty-second President of the United States from
1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, only
older than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He
became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he
was born in the period after World War II, he is known
as the first Baby Boomer president.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time
economic expansion in American history, which included
a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus. Based
on Congressional accounting rules, at the end of his presidency
Clinton reported a surplus of $559 billion. On the heels
of a failed attempt at health care reform with a Democratic
Congress, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives
for the first time in forty years. Two years later, he
was re-elected and became the first member of the Democratic
Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term
as President.
Since leaving office, Bill Clinton has been involved in
public speaking and humanitarian work. His public speaking
promotes and addresses international causes, such as treatment
and prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming.
Recently he has been involved in his wife Hillary's 2008
presidential campaign and in that of Barack Obama.
An avid runner and passionate about playing the saxophone,
former President Clinton never appeared to let his asthma
prevent him from partaking in key political or leisure
activities.
Yet another example of a Life Without Limits! |
