Key Person - Bill Clinton

William J. Clinton

• August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas.
• During the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term.He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus.After the failure in his second year of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring "the era of big government is over." He sought legislation to upgrade education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.
• Bill Clinton was president of the United States for two terms, from 1993 to 2001, and is best known as the president who survived impeachment after a sex scandal.
• In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President. Two years later, when Bill Clinton was a senior in high school, he was selected to go to Washington, D.C., to be a part of Boys Nation, a special youth leadership conference. When Bill Clinton finished college in 1968, he won a Rhodes Scholarship, which allows select students to study at Oxford University in England
• Playing the saxophone was his favorite pastime. He loved music, practiced every day, and played in jazz ensembles. Each summer, he attended a band camp in the Ozark Mountains. His hard work paid off when he became a top saxophone player at his school and won first chair in the state band's saxophone section.
• In 1976, Bill Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas.
• His most important goal as governor was to enhance the quality of education in the state. He raised teachers' salaries and began a program of testing students after the third, sixth, and eighth grades. He also encouraged parents to participate in their children's education.
• Bill Clinton was a significant figure and the reason i chose him is because i think he has been one of the most successful presidents ever. He truly cared for the people and considered a lot of ways to make things easier for us, from our education to our health care. I believe he is going to be one of the presidents that is going to be really remembered throughout out future history.