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Biographical facts about Bill Clinton:

Bill Clinton was born in the town of Hope in the United States. And Bill Clinton was born on a Monday on the date of 08-19-1946. He is know as a Lawyer,Politician,President.

Summary:

• Born: 1946-08-19
• Born in: Hope, United States
• Gender: Male
• Profession: Lawyer,Politician,President

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When he was in office, how did Bill Clinton use his presidential power and what did he use it for? Need ideas to brainstorm for my essay on Presidential Power.

Answer:Oh my dear, your question is specific "How he used his presidential power when he was "in the office". I think, when he was in the office, he used to role U.S.A from there, sign the paper and doing his duties as well. In addition to that there should be luxury time for any one and he used it as well.

Is Bill Clinton Really To Blame For The Economic Situation Rather Than Bush?

Afterall, when Bill Clinton wasn't get preferrential treatment under his desk, he was a huge advocate of banking deregulation. In essence, Bill Clinton let the rabbit out of the bag. Is it really George Bush's fault that the rabbit damaged the garden when Bill Clinton let the rabbit out of the bag?

Answer: The president *signed* Phil Gramm's legislation because the president wanted to get other things done. That's like saying Kerry was responsible for taking us to the Iraq War.

What Did Bill Clinton Do For The Immigrant Community When He Was In Office?

I've written an essay on how people one comes to admire don't always at first seem likeable. As an example I've used Bill clinton and how he helped the immigrant community, however i would like to use specific examples and have specific dates and places. If possible I would like to cite the source. Any help?

Answer:Granted the second amnesty. Regan gave the first one.

How Do You Think Bill Clinton Will Do In His Third Term As President?

I know America elected Barack Obama but so far all of his advisers/decision makers use to work for Bill with the one exception being Bill's wife. (Whom truth be know, Bill probably worked for her his entire presidency). Do you think Clinton still has influence over any of these people?

Answer:I think he will do just fine. About as good as Clinton I suppose. Lets see, what good did Clinton do? Hmmmm....Oh....he balanced the budget !. Ok, what else.......ummmm.....ok, well thats it. What else did Clinton do. He got us into 2 wars. Somalia, and Bosnia. In Somalia we lost our butt nearly right away, and then turned tail and ran, and then in Bosnia we liberated a bunch of Muslims that hate us anyway, from a bunch of Christians that are mostly just like us, and in the process nearly accidentally went to war with China. We can thank Clinton for NAFTA too. Lots of decent Americans lost their jobs when that happened. We can thank him and his wife for all the draconian environmental regulations and taxes that made it virtually impossible for us to remain competitive with the rest of the world, and also led to the single largest period of American job outsourcing that we have ever seen. In fact i am pretty sure Clinton is largely responsible for the new "middle class" that exists now in India. Not that we have much of one any more. Its just good to know that SOMEBODY benefitted from Clintons leadership. Oh and by the way, Clinton is responsible for getting us into EXACTLY the same number of wars as Bush. Except for a few differences. Clinton could have very easily declined to involve himself in either one of those wars in Bosnia or Somalia. Neither one was ANY THREAT WHATSOEVER to our national security. On the other hand, Bush got hit with the world trade center bombing 8 months into being President, and had the largely broken intelligence system (broken by Clinton by the way) to rely on to figure out what was going on and with who. He did the best he could with the intelligence he was provided with (faulty as it was) and a cabinet that wasn't exactly "hand-picked" for the express purposes of going to war, and certainly not with going to war against a renegade religious sect, with no actual home country. I love listening to these liberals cry about how bad Bush is, when Clinton was like 10 times worse in EVERY area. We even had not one but TWO instances of Federal aggression against our own people resulting in significant death and/or injury, in situations where a completely excessive use of force was employed. Ruby Ridge, and Waco. Which led to a 3rd unfortunate incident of reprisal with the domestic terrorism of the Oklahoma city bombing. Clintons Presidency was a disaster, and anyone who tells themselves otherwise is clearly OUT OF THEIR MIND.

Why Was Bill Clinton Well Liked During The Presidential Elections Than His Wife Hilary?

A lot of ppl loved Bill Clinton back in his presidential days but now that his wife is running how come she doesnt get that much support or why is she hated so much?

Answer:For starters, she has a more abrasive personality. He's a little more likeable, seems to be able to connect with average citizens better than she does. Unfortunately, the fact that she is a woman probably has something to do with it. I doubt everyone would admit it, but that's a big difference and could subconsciously cause some people to not look at her as a worthy opponent. There are two stereotypical "what if a woman were President" personality types that would most likely describe the first female President in the eyes of many Americans. The first is a woman who does not think rationally or logically. I know alot of people have wondered if a woman would be able to make the hard decisions the commander in chief would have to make. The other type is the so-called "ball-buster." Hillary Clinton fits into most people's definition of this term. But another reason is that Bill Clinton had the benefit of running as a relative unknown. Yes, he was in politics and in the public eye, but most of the country really got to know about him when he was running for President. Hillary has been in the public eye consistantly for the past 12+ years, as a polititian or as the wife of a polititian (unlike Reagan's notoriety as an actor or Eisenhower's popularity as a war hero.) People formed their opinion of her years ago.

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My Life
Average Rating: 3.5
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Author: Bill Clinton
Manufacturer: Vintage
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President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.

We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil rights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.

We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father’s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; drawn to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, Chelsea, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.

President Clinton’s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.

It is a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.

It is the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far Right, and how he survived and prevailed.

It is a treasury of moments caught alive, among them:

• The ten-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his family’s new (and first) television set.

• The young candidate looking for votes in the Arkansas hills and the local seer who tells him, “Anybody who would campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to carry one box. . . . You’ll win here. But it’ll be the only damn place you win in this county.” (He was right on both counts.)

• The roller-coaster ride of the 1992 campaign.

• The extraordinarily frank exchanges with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

• The delicate manipulation needed to convince Rabin and Arafat to shake hands for the camera while keeping Arafat from kissing Rabin.

• The cost, both public and private, of the scandal that threatened the presidency.

Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions, told openly, directly, in his own completely recognizable voice. A unique book by a unique American.


From the Hardcover edition.

My Life: The Presidential Years Vol. II (Vintage)
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $7.99
Author: Bill Clinton
Manufacturer: Vintage
ISBN13: 9781400096732
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President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.

We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil rights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.

We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father’s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; drawn to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, Chelsea, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.

President Clinton’s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.

It is a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.

It is the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far Right, and how he survived and prevailed.

It is a treasury of moments caught alive, among them:

• The ten-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his family’s new (and first) television set.

• The young candidate looking for votes in the Arkansas hills and the local seer who tells him, “Anybody who would campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to carry one box. . . . You’ll win here. But it’ll be the only damn place you win in this county.” (He was right on both counts.)

• The roller-coaster ride of the 1992 campaign.

• The extraordinarily frank exchanges with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

• The delicate manipulation needed to convince Rabin and Arafat to shake hands for the camera while keeping Arafat from kissing Rabin.

• The cost, both public and private, of the scandal that threatened the presidency.

Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions, told openly, directly, in his own completely recognizable voice. A unique book by a unique American.


From the Hardcover edition.

The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
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Author: Joe Klein
Manufacturer: Broadway
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This NY Times bestseller is the first work to cut through the gossip, scandals, media hype, and emotional turbulence that former Bill Clinton has always engendered, to step back and analyze the eight years of his administration. Softcover.

In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography
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Author: John Gartner
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William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States is undoubtedly the greatest American enigma of our age -- a dark horse that captured the White House, fell from grace and was resurrected as an elder statesman whose popularity rises and falls based on the day’s sound bytes. John Gartner's In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clinton’s complex nature and tells the story we all thought we knew, from the fresh viewpoint of a psychologist, as he questions the well-crafted Clinton life story. Travelling to Arkansas and around the world, Gartner uncovers long-held secrets about Clinton's wild and seductive mother, Virginia Kelley, the truth surrounding Clinton’s birth, and how Kelley's character set the tone for Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. He considers Clinton's two fathers as the root of his self-destructive nature and looks afresh at Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to see in her the figure of Edith Cassidy, Clinton's stern grandmother. Gartner then shows a Clinton reborn from diplomatic triumphs and humanitarianism across the globe. John Gartner’s exhaustive journey provides the richest portrait of Clinton yet, a man who is one of our national obsessions. In Search of Bill Clinton is a surprising and compelling book about a man we all thought we knew.

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House
Average Rating: 4.5
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Author: John F. Harris
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
The definitive account of one of the most accomplished, controversial, and polarizing figures in American history

Bill Clinton is the most arresting leader of his generation. He transformed American politics, and his eight years as president spawned arguments that continue to resonate. For all that has been written about this singular personality–including Clinton’s own massive autobiography–there has been no comprehensive, nonpartisan overview of the Clinton presidency.

Few writers are as qualified and equipped to tackle this vast subject as the award-winning veteran Washington Post correspondent John F. Harris, who covered Clinton for six of his eight years in office–as long as any reporter for a major newspaper. In The Survivor, Harris frames the historical debate about President William Jefferson Clinton, by revealing the inner workings of the Clinton White House and providing the first objective analysis of Clinton’s leadership and its consequences.

Harris shows Clinton entering the Oval Office in 1993 primed to make history. But with the Cold War recently concluded and the country coming off a nearly uninterrupted generation of Republican presidents, the new president’s entry into this maelstrom of events was tumultuous. His troubles were exacerbated by the habits, personal contacts, and the management style, he had developed in his years as governor of Arkansas. Clinton’s enthusiasm and temper were legendary, and he and Hillary Rodham Clinton–whose ambitions and ordeals also fill these pages–arrived filled with mistrust about many of the characters who greeted them in the “permanent Washington” that often holds the reins in the nation’s capital.

Showing surprising doggedness and a deep-set desire to govern from the middle, Clinton repeatedly rose to the challenges; eventually winning over (or running over) political adversaries on both sides of the aisle–sometimes facing as much skepticism from fellow Democrats as from his Republican foes. But as Harris shows in his accounts of political debacles such as the attempted overhaul of health care, Clinton’s frustrations in the war against terrorism, and the numerous personal controversies that time and again threatened to consume his presidency, Bill Clinton could never manage to outrun his tendency to favor conciliation over clarity, or his own destructive appetites.

The Survivor is the best kind of history, a book filled with major revelations–the tense dynamic of the Clinton inner circle and Clinton’s professional symbiosis with Al Gore to the imprint of Clinton’s immense personality on domestic and foreign affairs–as well as the minor details that leaven all great political narratives. This long-awaited synthesis of the dominant themes, events, and personalities of the Clinton years will stand as the authoritative and lasting work on the Clinton Presidency.


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Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World
Average Rating: 4.0
Price: $9.24
Author: Bill Clinton
Manufacturer: Knopf

Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. Giving is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations—and by individuals—to solve problems and save lives both “down the street and around the world.” Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, “regardless of income, available time, age, and skills,” can do to help, to give people a chance to live out their dreams.

Bill Clinton shares his own experiences and those of other givers, representing a global flood tide of nongovernmental, nonprofit activity. These remarkable stories demonstrate that gifts of time, skills, things, and ideas are as important and effective as contributions of money. From Bill and Melinda Gates to a six-year-old California girl named McKenzie Steiner, who organized and supervised drives to clean up the beach in her community, Clinton introduces us to both well-known and unknown heroes of giving. Among them:

Dr. Paul Farmer, who grew up living in the family bus in a trailer park, vowed to devote his life to giving high-quality medical care to the poor and has built innovative public health-care clinics first in Haiti and then in Rwanda;
a New York couple, in Africa for a wedding, who visited several schools in Zimbabwe and were appalled by the absence of textbooks and school supplies. They founded their own organization to gather and ship materials to thirty-five schools. After three years, the percentage of seventh-graders who pass reading tests increased from 5 percent to 60 percent;'
Oseola McCarty, who after seventy-five years of eking out a living by washing and ironing, gave $150,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi to endow a scholarship fund for African-American students;
Andre Agassi, who has created a college preparatory academy in the Las Vegas neighborhood with the city’s highest percentage of at-risk kids. “Tennis was a stepping-stone for me,” says Agassi. “Changing a child’s life is what I always wanted to do”;
Heifer International, which gave twelve goats to a Ugandan village. Within a year, Beatrice Biira’s mother had earned enough money selling goat’s milk to pay Beatrice’s school fees and eventually to send all her children to school—and, as required, to pass on a baby goat to another family, thus multiplying the impact of the gift.

Clinton writes about men and women who traded in their corporate careers, and the fulfillment they now experience through giving. He writes about energy-efficient practices, about progressive companies going green, about promoting fair wages and decent working conditions around the world. He shows us how one of the most important ways of giving can be an effort to change, improve, or protect a government policy. He outlines what we as individuals can do, the steps we can take, how much we should consider giving, and why our giving is so important.

Bill Clinton’s own actions in his post-presidential years have had an enormous impact on the lives of millions. Through his foundation and his work in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, he has become an international spokesperson and model for the power of giving.

“We all have the capacity to do great things,” President Clinton says. “My hope is that the people and stories in this book will lift spirits, touch hearts, and demonstrate that citizen activism and service can be a powerful agent of change in the world.”

My Life: The Early Years
Average Rating: 3.5
Price: $7.99
Author: Bill Clinton
Manufacturer: Vintage
President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public.

It shows us the progress of a remarkable American, who, through his own enormous energies and efforts, made the unlikely journey from Hope, Arkansas, to the White House—a journey fueled by an impassioned interest in the political process which manifested itself at every stage of his life: in college, working as an intern for Senator William Fulbright; at Oxford, becoming part of the Vietnam War protest movement; at Yale Law School, campaigning on the grassroots level for Democratic candidates; back in Arkansas, running for Congress, attorney general, and governor.

We see his career shaped by his resolute determination to improve the life of his fellow citizens, an unfaltering commitment to civil rights, and an exceptional understanding of the practicalities of political life.

We come to understand the emotional pressures of his youth—born after his father’s death; caught in the dysfunctional relationship between his feisty, nurturing mother and his abusive stepfather, whom he never ceased to love and whose name he took; drawn to the brilliant, compelling Hillary Rodham, whom he was determined to marry; passionately devoted, from her infancy, to their daughter, Chelsea, and to the entire experience of fatherhood; slowly and painfully beginning to comprehend how his early denial of pain led him at times into damaging patterns of behavior.

President Clinton’s book is also the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written—encompassing not only the high points and crises but the way the presidency actually works: the day-to-day bombardment of problems, personalities, conflicts, setbacks, achievements.

It is a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals.

It is the gripping account of a president under concerted and unrelenting assault orchestrated by his enemies on the Far Right, and how he survived and prevailed.

It is a treasury of moments caught alive, among them:

• The ten-year-old boy watching the national political conventions on his family’s new (and first) television set.

• The young candidate looking for votes in the Arkansas hills and the local seer who tells him, “Anybody who would campaign at a beer joint in Joiner at midnight on Saturday night deserves to carry one box. . . . You’ll win here. But it’ll be the only damn place you win in this county.” (He was right on both counts.)

• The roller-coaster ride of the 1992 campaign.

• The extraordinarily frank exchanges with Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole.

• The delicate manipulation needed to convince Rabin and Arafat to shake hands for the camera while keeping Arafat from kissing Rabin.

• The cost, both public and private, of the scandal that threatened the presidency.

Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions, told openly, directly, in his own completely recognizable voice. A unique book by a unique American.


From the Hardcover edition.

Clinton's Secret Wars: The Evolution of a Commander in Chief
Price: $18.47
Author: Richard Sale
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books

A popular yet polarizing force long after leaving office, Bill Clinton is still criticized by right-wingers as a president who was weak in his foreign policy. Veteran reporter Richard Sale takes us beneath partisan rhetoric and documents the learning curve of our nation’s 42nd President, showing his evolution as a strong leader on the world stage.

Using confidential sources in the administration itself, Sale reports on Clinton’s covert ops in such arenas as the Balkans and Middle East, revealing a leader who spearheaded the fight against Slobodan Milosevic, bombed Saddam Hussein, targeted Osama bin Laden, and prevented al-Qaeda from establishing a stronghold in the incendiary Balkans region. Ultimately, and revealingly, Clinton emerges at the end of his term in office as a tough-as-nails commander in chief in the same vein as Ronald Reagan. This “fly on the wall” look at a generation-defining leader provides an invaluable window into the presidency of Bill Clinton in the world arena.

First In His Class : A Biography Of Bill Clinton
Average Rating: 4.5
Price: $11.70
Author: David Maraniss
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
ISBN13: 9780684818900
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Who exactly is Bill Clinton, and why was he, of all the brilliant and ambitious men in his generation, the first in his class to reach the White House? Drawing on hundreds of letters, documents, and interviews, David Maraniss explores the evolution of the personality of our forty-second president from his youth in Arkansas to his 1991 announcement that he would run for the nation's highest office. In this richly textured and balanced biography, Maraniss reveals a complex man full of great flaws and great talents. First in His Class is the definitive book on Bill Clinton.

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