Bill Clinton - Bill Clinton - Presidency: The Clinton administration got off to a shaky start, the victim of what some critics called ineptitude and bad judgment. His birthplace was Hope, Arkansas. [310] Clinton served as a member of the electoral college for the state of New York. [136] Clinton came out for gay marriage in July 2009[141] and urged the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA in 2013. [255] Bennett said the president made the settlement only so he could end the lawsuit for good and move on with his life. U.S. Pres. His mother remarried when he was four to Roger Clinton. [326] Clinton earned more than $104 million from paid speeches between 2001 and 2012. In 1975, Clinton got married to Hillary Rodham and got elected as Arkansas attorney general in 1976. In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. [206][207] The administration then launched a four-day bombing campaign named Operation Desert Fox, lasting from December 16 to 19, 1998. In the following year he was elected attorney general of Arkansas, and in 1978 he won the governorship, becoming the youngest governor the country had seen in 40 years. [116], The Omnibus Crime Bill, which Clinton signed into law in September 1994,[117] made many changes to U.S. crime and law enforcement legislation including the expansion of the death penalty to include crimes not resulting in death, such as running a large-scale drug enterprise. With only minor opposition in the primary and no opposition at all in the general election,[42] Clinton was elected. [153] Until recently, this thwarted assassination attempt was never made public and remained top secret. Bill Clinton was born on August 19th in 1946. [78], Winning the big prizes of Florida and Texas and many of the Southern primaries on Super Tuesday gave Clinton a sizable delegate lead. Later in the 2008 primaries, there was some infighting between Bill and Hillary's staffs, especially in Pennsylvania. [152] This alerted Merletti and others as Clinton's motorcade was scheduled to drive over a major bridge in downtown Manila. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [240][241] His prominent role in campaigning for President Obama during the 2012 presidential election and his widely publicized speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, where he officially nominated Obama and criticized Republican nominee Mitt Romney and Republican policies in detail, earned him the nickname "Explainer-in-Chief". He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice the length it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long[62] and poorly delivered. His mother, Virginia Kelly, named him William Jefferson Blythe III after his father, who died in a car accident before his son's birth. Born in 1946, he attended public schools in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after moving there from Hope. [152] According to officials, the IED was large enough to "blow up the entire presidential motorcade". Please try again later. Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age; they were solidified (by his own account) in 1963, when he met Pres. Some of the American bodies were dragged through the streets—a spectacle broadcast on television news programs. [360] From a poll conducted of the American people in December 1999, Clinton was among eighteen included in Gallup's List of Widely Admired People of the 20th century. The law also imposed a five-day waiting period on purchases, until the NICS system was implemented in 1998. President William Jefferson Clinton. the Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill", Glad; Betty. in politics and, ultimately, a B.Phil. [11], Clinton joined friend Bruce Lindsey's Little Rock law firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings. As Clinton once joked, he was the youngest ex-governor in the nation's history. [269], In 2002, Clinton warned that pre-emptive military action against Iraq would have unwelcome consequences,[270][271] and later claimed to have opposed the Iraq War from the start (though some dispute this). Monroe Schwarzlose, of Kingsland in Cleveland County, polled 31 percent of the vote against Clinton in the Democratic gubernatorial primary of 1980. They have one daughter, Chelsea, and three grandchildren. Clinton was very angry, as he was already late for the meeting, but following the advice of the secret service possibly saved his life. Served as President: 1993-2001. [12] After a vigorous defense that made use of his "budding rhetorical and political skills", he told the Latin teacher Elizabeth Buck it "made him realize that someday he would study law". 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