Bill Clinton

Since 2000, C-SPAN has conducted a survey of historians on presidential leadership each time there has been a change in administrations. For each survey, we bring in a cross-section of presidential historians and ask them to rank the country's former chief executives on the same 10…

This data chart, produced by the American Presidency Project, details job approval ratings spanning from the Truman administration to the latest ratings from the Biden administration. Clinton has the highest job approval ratings out of any president during this period. The data excludes FDR and JFK…

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton filed papers to create an exploratory committee to consider running for Senator from New York state on July 6, 1999. The possibility that she would be a candidate arose after the Monica Lewinsky scandal had tarnished Bill Clinton's reputation.

This article includes a brief summary of President Bill Clinton's accomplishments during and following his presidency.

In this article, the author goes in-depth to discuss President Bill Clinton's legacy regarding his domestic and foreign accomplishments. The author remarks upon Clinton's policies regarding the economy, crime, gun control, and health care. The author also talks about the "Clinton…

In this article, the author discusses the legacy of President Bill Clinton. He talks about the mixed reception to Clinton's legacy and his domestic and foreign policy accomplishments and faults. He considers how Clinton was able to remake the Democratic Party and evaluated how future…

In this article, the author discusses Bill Clinton's legacy and his shaping of the political landscape of America following the 2000 election. The author addresses different factors that he believe shape Clinton's legacy and how he will leave his lasting mark on the country.

In his farewell address, President Bill Clinton reflects on the improved economy and highlights the continuing need for fiscal responsibility, global leadership, and a unified America.

In this article from 2008, author Brooks Jackson addresses the claims that the federal budget was balanced under the Clinton administration and whether the federal deficit was erased. The author discusses Clinton's budget surpluses and responds to readers' concerns about the data…

This speech was delivered by President Bill Clinton at the annual White House prayer breakfast on Friday, September 11, 1998, to an audience of more than 100 ministers, priests and other religious leaders assembled in the East Room. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was also in attendance.
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In this speech, President Bill Clinton gives remarks about the Oklahoma City bombing and addresses the citizens of the city. He mourns the victims lost in the attack and discusses his role as a representative of the American people in joining the Oklahoma City community in mourning.

<p><span class="deck">Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization, in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years later, Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It’s a politician’s bromide, and it also happens to be a profound truth. No war, no national crisis, has left a greater impress on the American psyche than the successive waves of new arrivals that quite literally built the country. Now that arguments against immigration are rising again, it is well to remember that every single one of them has been heard before.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">An interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how it grew, and grew, and grew…</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">William Jefferson Clinton, Andrew Johnson, and the judgment of history</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Smarter than stupid, of course, but does the intellectual tradition that began with the century suggest that there's such a thing as being too smart for the country’s good?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How bad is it when presidents get <span class="typestyle"> really</span> sore? </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">WHICH PRESIDENT WILL HISTORY COMPARE HIM MOST CLOSELY TO?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">WHAT’S AN EX-PRESIDENT TO DO?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why have our presidents almost always stumbled after the first four years?</span></p>

<p>The Senate convened 20 years ago to determine whether President Bill Clinton had committed "high crimes and misdemeanors"</p>

<p>Partisan politics, plus the media’s focus on Clinton’s personal life, created a presidency under siege and consumed by scandals—some serious, others trivial.</p>