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William J. Clinton• Born William Blythe.• Education:

Georgetown, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law

• Governor of Arkansas• Married to Hillary

Rodham – 1 daughter, Chelsea.

• Independent Party• Received 18.9% of the

popular vote, approximately 19,741,065 votes (but no electoral college votes), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

H. Ross Perot

Contract with America• The Contract detailed

the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the House for the first time in 40 years. – Balanced Budget

Amendment– Term Limits – $500 Tax Credit per child– Anti-Crime Laws

NAFTA• North American Free

Trade Agreement.• The goal of NAFTA was

to eliminate barriers of trade and investment between the USA, Canada and Mexico.

• President Clinton (D) ran for re-election in 1996.

• Bob Dole (Senator from Kansas) was the Republican candidate.

• Why was Clinton confident of victory?– Economy was booming and

relative peace in the world and people were content.

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Bill Clinton….

….and his women

Gennifer Flowers• While Clinton was

Governor of Arkansas, he had a long time affair with her.

• Came out during 1992 primaries, and Clinton admitted to the affair

Juanita BroderickAccused then Governor Clinton of raping her in Florida in 1978

Paula Jones • Sexual harassment

lawsuit brought in Arkansas in May, 1994.

• Clinton made a series of increasingly aggressive moves, culminating in his dropping his pants.

Kathleen Willey• Former Miss America • Mrs. Willey said on "60

Minutes" that in 1993 the president embraced her, kissed her on the lips, touched her breasts and placed one of her hands on his genitals.

• Her husband killed himself the same day, shortly after this happened.

Monica Lewinsky• Monica Lewinsky came

to Washington in July 1995 to work as a White House intern at age 21, newly graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland.

Linda Tripp• With friends like that…..

• Began secretly taping her own conversations with Lewinsky.

• Tripp learned that her friend had in her closet a blue dress  that still bore the semen stain from a sexual encounter with the President some nine months earlier.

The New Economy• One major reason for

the economic boom of the 1990s was the growth of the personal computer and the Internet.

• Bill Gates co-founder of Microsoft and technology visionary.

Rodney King

• Led LA police on a high speed chase and was severely beaten.

• 4 officers were charged with assault but were found not guilty.

• Verdict led to rioting all over south central Los Angeles.

OJ Simpson• Hall of Fame football player who was charged

with murder.• Controversial not guilty verdict; race was a

major factor in the case.

Oklahoma City Attack

• April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma a federal building was blown up and 168 people were killed in the blast.

• Timothy McVeigh was found guilty and executed for this act.

• He was motivated by his hatred of the federal government.

Osama Bin Laden• Member of the

prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of the Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda– Means “The base”– terrorist Islamist group

founded sometime between August 1988 and late 1989.

USS Coleo The USS Cole was

attacked by a suicide bomber while refueling in Yemen in December 2000o 17 sailors killed; 39 injured

o The terrorist organization al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.

Operation Uphold Democracy

• Response in 1994 to the overthrow and expulsion of the duly elected government of Haiti by a military coup.

• President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was exiled to the US.

• Clinton ordered an invasion of Haiti to return Aristide to power, but before the assault, a US delegation was able to convince the coup leaders to step down.

Operation Desert Fox• Clinton attacked Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological

weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.

• Why was this ordered? Hussein refused to allow UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.

• NATO's bombing campaign lasted from March 22 to June 11, 1999, involving up to 1,000 aircraft operating mainly from bases in Italy and aircraft carriers stationed in the Adriatic.

• Tomahawk cruise missiles were also extensively used, fired from aircraft, ships, and submarines.