Continued blog discussion!
-Bill Clinton
- 42nd president
- 1993-2001
- Law Professor at Arkansas
- Elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976
- Elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978
- Only 2nd President to ever be impeached by the House of Representatives
-Elections
- 1992 against George H.W. Bush
- Ran for change like Barack Obama
- 1996 election against Bob Dole
- Both elections had a 3rd party Ross Perot
-Accomplishments
- NAFTA was passed into law
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993- required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition
- Lowered taxes for low income families and raised taxes for the wealthiest Americans
- Under Clinton, the US had a federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969
- Safe and drug in schools
- “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in US military
- Defense of Marriage Act- defines marriage for federal purposes as the legal union of one man and one woman
- Allowed individual states to refuse to recognize gay marriages performed in other states
-Challenges
- Failed to get his universal health care plan passed
- Whitewater Scandal
- Trooper gate
- Paula Jones- settled $850,000
- Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia
- Osama bin Laden- al- Qaeda bombings in Africa
- Kosovo Crisis in Yugoslavia
- Bombed Iraq frequently from 1998-2001
-Impeachment
- Due to lying under oath about his “relationship” with Monica Lewinsky
- The Senate voted to acquit Clinton
- She eventually admitted to it
- Clinton denied it
- Wasn’t charged
- Lost a lot of respect for what he did
-George W. Bush
- 43rd president
- 2001-2009
- His father was the 41st president
- Governor of Texas 1995-2000
- Went to Yale and Harvard
- In the oil business with his father
- Co-owner of the Texas Rangers 1989-1994
-Elections
- 2000 election was a crazy election
- 2004 election against John Carey
-Accomplishments
- Cut taxes
- No child Left Behind Act- aimed to measure and close the gap between rich and poor student performance
- Provide options to parents with students in low- performing schools
- Target more federal funding in low- income schools
-9-11
- Saratoga Florida
- First plane that ran into the north tower
- Second tower was attacked
- Hit the Pentagon
- Pennsylvania
- Building collapsed
- Osama bin Laden in charge of it
- Afterwards people were sent to invade Afghanistan
-War in Afghanistan
- Result of 9-11
- Hoping to be out of this war by 2014 (goal)
-War in Iraq
- Started with the State of the Union address
- Saddam Hussein was an enemy of America
- The Capture, Trial, and Execution of Saddam Hussein
- Went to war because of the claim of having nuclear weapons
- Not allowing weapon inspectors into Iraq and that’s what started this war
- Saddam was taken down really fast and his government
- We had to fight al- Qaeda
- Caught him in a hole underground
- Put on trial by the new Iraqi government that we established
- Hung by the people of Iraq
- Ended in 2011
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