Bill Clinton
- 42nd president
- Law professor of Arkansas
- Elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978
- Only 2nd president to ever be impeached by house of representatives
- Met Hilary at Yale
Election
- 1992 election
- 370 electoral votes 43% popular votes
- 1996 election
- 376 electoral votes 49.2% popular votes
Accomplishments
- Brady bill- background checks
- NAFTA
- Crime bill- put new cops on the streets gave more times for criminals before death penalty.
- Student loan program- More money, flexible way to pay back
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993-required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition
- Don’t ask don’t tell- you can be in the military if you are homosexual, don’t ask, and don’t tell.
- DOMA- fight against homosexual marriage
Scandals
- Had an affair with an intern
- Tried to impeach him for perjury
- Troopergate
- Paula Jones
- Whitewater scandal
- Bombed Iraq (Saddam Hussein)
George W. Bush
- 43rd president
- Governor of Texas 1995-2000
- Went to yale and Harvard
- Oil business
Elections
- 2000- Won by 500 votes
Accomplishments
- Cut taxes
- No Child Left Behind Act- targeted more federal funding to low-income family’s
- Patriot act
9/11;
- Was in Florida reading little kids.
- 4 total plains were hy-jacked
- The two towers fell down
- Osama Bin Laden- alkida group
- Osama was taken town
- Because of it; Patriot act, Airports strict, joined together.
Afghanistan-
- War went well, we won, we got Osama
- Wants to end at the end of 2014
Iraq
- Started state of union
- January 29, 2002
- Announced about focus in Iraq
- “Access of Evil”
- Went to war because thy claimed to had WMD (getting, making, creating)
- Didn’t let inspectors come in
- 20+ nations joined to take over Iraq
- Government went down fast
- Next 8-9 years we had to continue to fight Iraq
- We did not put him on trial, new Iraq government did
- Was hung by people of Iraq
- Obama got troops outta there at the end of 2011
- 50% increase of terries’ attacks
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