Clinton
- Law professor in Arkansas
- Arkansas attorney general in 1976
- elected governer
- only the 2nd President to ever be impeached by the House of Reps
Accomlishments
- NAFTA was passed
- Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
- Lowered taxes for low income families and raised taxes for the wealthiest Americans
- Under Clinton, the United States had a federal budget surplus for the first time since 1969
- Brady Bill
- "Dont ask Dont Tell" policy in the military
- Defense of Marriage Act (Defines marraige)
- Defines marriage for federal purposes as the legal union of one man and one woman
Challenges
- Failed to get his universal health care plan passed
- Had an affair with a co worker while in office
- Due to lying under oath about his "relationship" with Monica Lewinsky
- Senate voted to acquit Clinton
- Paula Jones was another one of his mistresses
- Settled for 850,000 dollars so they would keep their mouths shut
George W. Bush
- Governor of Texas
- Went to Yale and Harvard
- In the oil business
- Co-owner of the Texas Rangers 1989-1994
Elections
- Ran in 2000 vs Al Gore
- It was very close
- Al Gore won the popular vote
- 2004 election
- He got over 50% of the popular vote
Accomplishments
- Bush Tax Cutsm
- Passed after US gov't had three straight years of budget surpluses
- The surplus is not the government's money. The surplus is the people's money
- No Child Left Behind
- Aimed to measure and close the gap between rich and poor student performance
- Provide options to parents with students in low-preforming schools
911
- There was 4 planes hijacked
- Osama Bin Laden was responsible
- We invade Afganistan in October 2001
- Airports became much tougher through security
War in Afganistan
- Caused by 911
- The most important goal was to defeat the Taliban
- We also wanted to capture Bin Laden which we did 10 years later
- We want to be out by 2014
War in Iraq
- Started with the State of the Union Address
- Announced the beginning of military focus in Iraq
- We went to war in Iraq because they claimed they had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
- We toppled Saddam Hussein very fast
- The new Iraq government put him on trial
- The people of Iraq hung him
- Ended in 2011
- Since we have left there has been a 50% increase in terrorist attacks
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