Clinton had shown an early interest in politics and his mother engaged him in political discussions, encouraging his ambitions. He became motivated to a life of public service after meeting President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden of the White House while in high school. In his first foray into the political arena in 1974 he lost a bid to unseat the incumbent four-term Republican Congressman from Arkansas in a very close race. Clinton was elected state attorney general in 1976.

In 1978, at the age of 32, he had become the youngest governor in

Health-care reform had been important in Clinton's campaign ,and proved to be the most troublesome of his programs. Clinton had appointed his wife, Hillary, to oversee a committee charged with the task of reviewing possible health-care reforms. This action opened Clinton to a lot of criticism from congressional opponents. A proposal developed by the task force was revealed in October 1993. Debate over the proposed plan raged in Congress over the course of the next year. Five alternate plans were submitted by different members of Congress, but none gained the support they needed. The health-care reform effort was abandoned in September 1994.

William Jefferson Clinton's expired in late January 2001. He has relocated to a new home in New York State where his wife, Hillary is serves as a United States Senator.

All in all, I would have to say that Bill Clinton was a good president. I feel he did an excellent job of running this country like a leader, instead of like a bully. He did his best to put money in the places it needed to go, not all in just one area. Instead of being all gung-ho war, he was all gung-ho America, the way a president should be.

Clinton campaigned heavily for support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The pact, establishing a free-trade zone among the three countries, barely passed Congress and took effect in January 1994. In February he announced the end of a 19-year-long trade embargo against Vietnam. In other foreign-policy matters, Clinton was criticized for being indecisive. In Israel, members of Clinton's administration helped to hammer out an agreement on Palestinian self-rule between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Leader Yasir Arafat in 1993. However, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process threatened to collapse following outbreaks of violence in late 1996. Iraq remained a problem in the side of United States foreign policy. In September 1994 and again in the summer of 1996, Clinton ordered limited military attacks against Iraq for repeated violations of the 1991 Gulf War armistice agreement.

Both the President and Congress exercised moderation throughout 1997 cutting taxes for both the middle class as well as the wealthy, modifying the welfare system and reducing the deficit. Clinton also indicated a potential for compromise over the highly controversial Republican backed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. Prominent congressional Republicans responded favorably to the President's overtures of a political truce, but the skeptics argued that this p

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