Bill Clinton
Background
William Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19,1946 to William Jefferson Blythe II and Virginia Dell Cassidy. Both of his parents jobs caused them to travel, so Bill was left with his grandparents. His parents were split when he was a young kid. Later on Bill's mother quiet her job and moved back. Bill's mom went a man named Roger Clinton Sr, who she later married. Roger owned a dealership in Arkansas, so the family moved there.
Bill received many scholarships and was able to attend Georgetown University. Clinton received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1973 and became Arkansas Governor and also was involved in Chair of the National Governor Association.
Bill married Hilary Rodham Clinton, who he met when he was campaigning for Senate. Bill and Hilary got married on October 11, 1975. They had one daughter Chelsea Victoria, who was born on February 27,
Elections
1992 - 370 vs George Bush vs. Ross Perot won
1996 - 379 elector votes vs Bob Dole vs. Perot. 49.2 % won
Accomplishments and Failures:
- Did drugs a time or two
- Brady Bill, where people had to have a background check before people could by weapons
- Meagan's Law, if a sexafender moves into a neighborhood, you have to let everyone else.
- Family Medical Leave- Mom can stay home unpaid up to 12 weeks after a baby is born
- He better Jump Start Preschool
- Lowered taxes for low income families
- Don't ask don't tell, couldn't be openly gay in the militarily
- internet went viral when he was president.
- DOMA- Defense of Marriage Act
-defines marriage for federal puropses as the legal union of one man and on women
- allowed invidual states to accept it or not
- Failed to get Universal health care passed
- Battle of Mogadishu in Somilia, we were trying to capture a Lord of Somilia, and for like 20 years was anarchy
- Bill Laden and Qaleka turned on us, they say us as invaders, we had troops in Kuwait
- We bombed Iraq frequently from 1998-2001
Scandals-
- Monica Lewinsky was hired as a internship
- Bill and Monica started having a relationship in the white house
- Monica friend recorded there conversation
- He got impeached by the House of Representatives cause he lied under oath
- Paula Jones- settled her for 850,000
George W. Bush 2001-2009
Background
- He was a cheerleader in college
- Earned his NBA - only president with one
- Went to Havard
- He was Texas National Guard, honorable discharged
- Married Laura Bush and had twins
- Co-owner of Texas Rangers
- Texas Governor in 1995-2000
- Problems with alcoholic, but he quit cold turkey on his 40th birthday
Elections
- 2000 election, we won electoral votes but lost popular votes
- In this election there was 3 recounts in Florida, 500 votes between
- They thought bush won then gore won then bush won, then finally Bush wins
- Crazy elections
- Al Gore was vice president for Clinton
- 2004- 31/50 states vs. John Carrey
- Bush had 50.7 popular votes
Accomplishments and Failures
9-11- Al Qaeda led by Bid Laden, hi jacked 4 planes,
- We then went to war with Afghanistan with an attack
- we got better security, we built up our military
- Peatier Act- government to listen into conversations
- Our nation came together
War in Afganistan
- we went to war, the Tally Bond was the leader of the country
- Bin Laden was located in that country
- we took that government down
- helped build up the government and country
- we want to be out by the end of 2014
- Bush lost his focus on Afganistan after 2003 and worried about Iraq
War in Iraq-
- 2003 we went to war, by invading
- Saddam Hussein we thought had nuecular weapons
- help set up democary
- we captured Saddum in a hole
- The new democary put Saddam on trail, where we was charged with many things
- He was put to death by hanging in 2006
- Al Qadea was moving into Iraq
- 2006-7 war was unpopular, we sent more troops instead of pulling out
- Obama decided to put focus back on Afghanistan and the Iraq war ended shortly
Taxes Cut
- Passed after Us gov't had htree straight years of budget surpises
No Child Left Behind
- Education push, close the gap between poor and rich student
- provide opotions to parents with students in low performing
Water Boarding
- pour water over people with a towel over there mouth
Bank Bailout-
- when you do back ground check on people
- to make sure they would pay back
Barack Obama
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