Bill Clinton
Before a throng of thousands of people and millions of television viewers, with daughter Chelsea at his side and wife Hillary holding the Bible, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States in Washington D.C. on January 20, 1993. Bill Clinton, the long-time governor of Arkansas, defeated incumbent George Bush by convincing voters that America needed to be set on a new course...one that a young Clinton could provide. In his inaugural address, Mr. Clinton is quoted: "Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. When most people are working harder for less; when other cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises great and small...we have not made change our friend." William Jefferson Blythe IV was born in the rural community of Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946. "Bill", as he was nicknamed, was raised by mother, Virginia, and grandparents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy. Bill's father died when Virginia was six months
Clinton's success as governor vanished overnight. He lost by some thirty thousand votes in the next polls. In January of 1981, he was now the nation's youngest ex-governor. But, in 1982, after his defeat, Clinton learned some valuable lessons in politics and he regained the office of governor. Then, he was inaugurated as governor of Arkansas, for a third, fourth, and fifth time. On October 3, 1991, Clinton made a very important decision- to run for president. He proposed affordable health care for all Americans, a tax system that would make the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share, and apprenticeship programs where students could borrow money for college by paying back a percentage of their income, or through national service. The young man from a poor town made his dream come true. With Vice-President Al Gore, Bill Clinton won the election to be president. With his second term as president drawing to an end, Clinton's dream will soon become a memory. The author's exact sources of information were not all listed, but in the few instances that the source was given, it was almost always from television...
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