William (bill) Jefferson Clinton - forty – second President of the United States (1993-2001).
President's parents
Bill Clinton President bill Clinton's photo life, his career, his will to win and, importantly, getting the result is a real "American dream". He was born (19.08.1946) in the provincial town of hope, in Arkansas. By the way, before Clinton came from Arkansas has never become President. His father, William Blythe, was the most ordinary salesman, selling some equipment. Mom, Virginia Cassidy, worked as an anesthesiologist. They married in 1943, and almost immediately after the wedding, his father was drafted into the army.
There was the Second World war, and the father of the future President fought on the fronts of Egypt. He survived the war and returned home. In 1946, the young family decided to move to Chicago, where there were much more opportunities for them than in a small mountain town. But these bright plans for life did not come true. In the same 1942, three months before the birth of his first child, William Blythe died in a car accident. He died on the way from Chicago to hope.
Childhood. Youth
In the first years of life the education bill was the grandmother and the grandfather on the maternal line – Edith and Eldridge Cassidy. His mother remarried when the boy was four years old, to the car dealer Roger Clinton. The family moved to Hot springs (Arkansas). In 1956, the year bill was born brother.
When the future President was fifteen years old, he decided to change his father's surname to his stepfather's, for reasons of dissonance of his native name. "Blythe "in English means"decline." He studied at school on "excellent", with pleasure played in a jazz band on a saxophone. Bill Clinton's love for this instrument remained in his Mature years.
In 17 years, bill has an event occurred that changed his life. It was a meeting with President John Kennedy, where bill represented the youth delegation. During this meeting, President Kennedy shook hands with seventeen-year-old Clinton, thereby defining a goal in the life of a young man. It was after that handshake Clinton firmly decided to engage in politics and social activities.
Despite the fact that the money in the family lacked (stepfather bill started drinking), the young man was educated at three universities. He studied in Washington, Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale. The guy got out as best he could on his own. He worked simultaneously on three jobs, while perfectly studied, receiving a special, increased scholarship. When he was 29, bill made an offer, and then entered into marriage with Hillary Clinton.
Beginning of political career
Clinton's political career developed rapidly. After losing the elections to the us Congress, he nevertheless acquired the necessary connections in the democratic party. So, only two years later, in 1976, he was elected Minister of justice and attorney General of Arkansas. And two years later, in 1978, Clinton became Governor of this state.
By the way, Arkansas is the poorest state in America. He was Governor for eleven years, during which he was able to significantly increase the state's income, as well as to resolve the issue of access to education, regardless of the financial situation of people and their race. Governor Clinton had a daughter, Chelsea, in 1980.
President of America
In 1991, Clinton decided to take part in the presidential elections of the democratic party. In the election campaign, he talked about the bad economic situation of the state, inflation and budget deficit, public debt and unemployment, which led the country Republicans, and in particular, President George W. Bush.
The result of his campaign was a brilliant victory over the opponent of the Republican party – albert Gore. Even in those States where Republicans have always traditionally won, bill Clinton won. America could not remember such a sensation, perhaps, since the time of John Kennedy. So, 20.01.1993 year was the inauguration of Clinton. The new President wanted to reform the health care system, increase taxes for the rich and, on the contrary, reduce them for the middle class, reduce the number of unemployed... but, alas.
Unfortunately, the 11-year experience of managing the post of Governor, President Clinton, was not enough for big politics. This had a particularly negative impact on his first term in office. One of the most unacceptable for the Americans solution was lobbying the President of the question of military service of homosexuals. This was followed by a failure in foreign and military policy. The peacekeeping operation in Somalia was extremely unsuccessful, despite the fact that it was under the cover of the UN.
In an attempt to reform the health sector, there was a serious conflict with Congress. Well, at the end of the Clinton presidency was still on top of the world sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, his Secretary of twenty years. The President was accused of lying under oath in 1996, when he testified about the incident, and this lie was the beginning of impeachment. Despite the fact that the rating of the President has decreased, it should be noted that the country under his leadership overcame unemployment, reduced its foreign debt, and also reached a leading position in the development of high technologies, strengthening its foreign policy influence, a significant expansion of NATO.
After the presidency
Bill Clinton is actively engaged in political work with the public. In 2008, he supported democratic candidate Barack Obama in the elections. At the moment, Clinton is a member of the Tripartite Commission, engaged in charity.