President Bill Clinton life

1. President Bill Clinton
NAME : BILL WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
THE 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
ABDALRAHIM ABUDAYYA
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2. Outlines
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Clinton’s Early Years
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College
•
Presidency
•
Clinton’s Domestic
Issues and
Challenges
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Foreign Policy
Challenges
•
Clinton’s Foreign
Policy Legacy
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Achievements

4. Early life
 Clinton was born on August 19,
1946, at Julia Chester Hospital
in Arkansas.
 His father, William Jefferson
was a traveling salesman who
died in an automobile accident
three months before Bill was
born.
 His mother, Virginia Dell
Cassidy, traveled to New
Orleans to study nursing soon
after he was born.
 She left Bill in Hope with
grandparents, who owned and
ran a small grocery store.

5. Clinton’s Early Years
Bill Clinton meets
President John F.
Kennedy as a 16 year-old
delegate of Boy’s Nation
on June 6, 1963

6. College
 Georgetown University in Washington,
D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Science in
Foreign Service (B.S.) degree in 1968.
 Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes
Scholarship to University College,
Oxford where he studied Philosophy,
Politics and Economics, though because
he had switched programs and had left
early for Yale University, he did not
receive a degree there.
 After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale
Law School and earned a Juris Doctor
degree in 1973.
 In a Yale library in 1971 he met a law
student Hillary Rodham. And they later
married on October 11, 1975, and their
only child, Chelsea, was born on
February 27, 1980.
Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham at
Yale Law School, January 1972

7. Bill Clinton taking the Oath of Office as the
Governor of Arkansas on January 9, 1979
Political career 1978–1992

8. Election results 1993

9. Election results 1997

10. Presidency
In 1993 Bill won the
presidential election and
was ready to start his 4
year term.
Bill won his second-term
in 1997.
Bill was done as president
in 2001 and now goes to
different countries and
makes speeches.
Clinton family in White House

11. Clinton’s Domestic Issues
Worked to Develop
NAFTA (North American
Free Trade Agreement)
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to eliminate barriers to trade and
investment between the US, Canada
and Mexico
At $248.2 billion for Canada and
$163.3 billion for Mexico, they were
the top two purchasers of US exports
in 2010
At $276.4 billion for Canada and
$229.7 billion for Mexico, they were
the second and third largest
suppliers of goods imports to the
United States in 2010

12. Other Domestic Challenges
Internet
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The internet emerged as a
major means of communication
and commerce.
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People were concerned about
inappropriate material on the
Internet.
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The White House tried to pass
a law to limit sexually explicit
material, but the Supreme
Court ruled that it violated the
right to freedom of speech.

13. Other Domestic Challenges
Terrorism
 Terrorists exploded
a bomb in
Oklahoma City that
killed 168 people.

14. Foreign Policy Challenges
Oslo Accords

2nd U.S. Attempts
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Clinton hosted the signing of a
peace agreement between
Israel and the Palestinians.
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Agreed to self-rule for
Palestinians in return for the
Palestinians recognizing
Israel’s right to exist

15. Foreign Policy Challenges
Somalia
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The Battle of Mogadishu
occurred in Somalia in
1993.
Bosnian Serb
o
In 1995, U.S. and NATO
aircraft attacked Bosnian
Serb targets to halt attacks
on U.N. safe zones and to
pressure them into a
peace accord.
Kosovo war 1999

16. Foreign Policy Challenges
Haiti
 Clinton pledged the
use of American
troops to lead a UN
mission to remove a
military dictator.
 The
presence of UN
forces helped bring
about a generally
peaceful change in
government.

17. Clinton’s Foreign Policy Legacy?
Peace Operations
 Somalia
 Rwanda
 Bosnia
 Kosovo

18. Achievements
 Clinton signed the Family and
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Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin and
Yasser Arafat during the Oslo
Accords on September 13,
1993.
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The Clinton administration
also launched the first official
White House website,
whitehouse.gov, on October
21, 1994.
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When he left the presidency
there was a budgetary surplus
of $ 559 billion dollars
Medical Leave Act of 1993 on
February 5
 Clinton signed the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of
1993 in August of that year,
which passed Congress without
a Republican vote. It cut taxes
for fifteen million low-income
families, made tax cuts available
to 90 percent of small
businesses, and raised taxes on
the wealthiest 1.2 percent of
taxpayers.

19. Camp David 2000
Clinton brought Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat
together at Camp David.
Following the peace talk
failures, Clinton stated Arafat
"missed the opportunity" to
facilitate a "just and lasting
peace." In his autobiography,
Clinton blames Arafat for the
collapse of the summit.