American President
Bill Clinton (1946– )
Facts at a Glance
- Term
- 42nd President of the United States (1993–2001)
- Born
- August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas
- Full Name
- William Jefferson Clinton
- Education
- Georgetown University (1968), attended Oxford University (1968–1970), Yale Law School (1973)
- Religion
- Baptist
- Marriage
- Hillary Rodham on October 11, 1975
- Children
- Chelsea Victoria (1980)
- Career
- Lawyer, public official
- Political Party
- Democrat
- Writings
- Putting People First (1992); Between Hope and History (1996)
- A Life in Brief
- William Jefferson Clinton, the young President from Hope, Arkansas, succeeded where no other Democrat had since FDR: he was reelected to a second term. Clinton also defied his critics by surviving an array of personal scandals, turning the greatest fiscal deficit in American history into a surplus, effectively using American force to stop the murderous "ethnic cleansing" wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, and presiding over the greatest level of economic prosperity since the early 1960s. More »
First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1993)
Essays on Bill Clinton and His Administration
- Bill Clinton
- A Life in Brief
- Life Before the Presidency
- Campaigns and Elections
- Domestic Affairs
- Foreign Affairs
- Life After the Presidency
- Family Life
- The American Franchise
- Impact and Legacy
- Key Events
- First Lady
- Hillary Clinton
- Vice President
- Albert Gore, Jr.
- Secretary of State
- Warren M. Christopher (1993–1997)
- Madeleine Albright (1997–2001)
- Secretary of Defense
- Les Aspin (1993–1994)
- William J. Perry (1994–1997)
- William Cohen (1997–2001)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Bruce Babbitt (1993–2001)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Ronald Brown (1993–1996)
- Michael Kantor (1996–1997)
- William Daley (1997–2000)
- Norman Y. Mineta (2000–2001)
- Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Donna Shalala (1993–2001)
- Secretary of Energy
- Hazel O'Leary (1993–1997)
- Frederico Peña (1997–1998)
- Bill Richardson (1998–2001)
- Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
- Jesse Brown (1993–1998)
- Togo West (1998–2000)
- Hershel Gober (2000–2001)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Lloyd Bentsen (1993–1994)
- Robert Rubin (1995–1999)
- Lawrence Summers (1999–2001)
- Attorney General
- Janet Reno (1993–2001)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Michael Espy (1993–1994)
- Dan Glickman (1995–2001)
- Secretary of Labor
- Robert Reich (1993–1997)
- Alexis Herman (1997–2001)
- Secretary of Transportation
- Frederico Peña (1993–1997)
- Rodney Slater (1997–2001)
- Secretary of Education
- Richard Riley (1993–2001)
- Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- Henry Cisneros (1993–1997)
- Andrew Cuomo (1997–2001)
Consulting Editor: Russell L. Riley
Professor Riley is co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program and project director of the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project. His writings include:
The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831–1965 (Columbia University Press, 1999)
Presidential Speeches
Below are selections from the Miller Center’s Bill Clinton speech collection.
February 17, 1993—Address Before a Joint Session of Congress
November 13, 1993—Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in
Christ in Memphis
November 30, 1995—Address to the Employees of the Mackie Metal
Plant
Scholarship and Speakers
The Miller Center of Public Affairs is a national nonpartisan center to research, reflect, and report on American government, with special attention to the central role and history of the presidency. Below is a selection of Miller Center resources on Bill Clinton.
Watch Journalist John Harris’s
2005 presentation at the Miller Center on Bill Clinton in the White House.
Watch Journalist Joe Klein’s
2002 presentation at the Miller Center on The Presidency of Bill Clinton.
President Bill Clinton sent U.S. troops to conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Haiti. Learn more about the Miller Center’s National War Powers Commission.
Learn more about the Center’s National Commission on the Vice Presidency and its relationship to Clinton.
Scripps Library Reference Resources
Below are links to reference resources prepared by the Miller Center’s Scripps Library, designed to help students and scholars conduct their research quickly.
Information on Bill Clinton’s Private and Public Papers
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