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The Clinton Administration
Essential Question: How should historians judge the impact, effectiveness, and legacy of the Clinton administration?
Bill Clinton meets President John F. Kennedy as a 16 year-old delegate of Boy’s Nation on June 6, 1963
1992 Presidential Election
1992 Clinton Campaign Commercials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBFL6iwid4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUHT-hmGvjQ
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress- North American Free Trade Agreement (Free trade between N. American countries)
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
James Brady lies paralyzed after the attempted assassination of
Ronald Reagan
James Brady watches President Clinton sign the “Brady Bill” into law
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
•More than two hundred thousands civilians have been killed in the former Yugoslavia since the beginning of the war. Tens of thousands of women were raped, some of them more than a hundred times, while their sons and husbands were beaten and tortured in concentration camps. Millions lost their homes due to a process called "ethnic cleansing." a process in which advancing army of one ethnic group expels civilians of other ethnic groups from towns and villages it conquers in order to create ethnically pure
enclaves for members of their ethnic group. (Serbians wanted pure race)
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 killed168 and injured
approximately 700.
Timothy McVeigh
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
• Won reelection in 1996 (defeated Bob Dole)
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
• Won reelection in 1996 (defeated Bob Dole)
• Was impeached by the House of Reps (Dec. 1998) for perjury & obstruction of justice, but was acquitted by the Senate (Feb. 1999)
• Impeachment Charge: Perjury to a Grand Jury (228 for, 206 against)
• Impeachment Charge: Obstruction of Justice (221 for, 212 against)
• Not Guilty of Perjury to a Grand Jury (45 for conviction, 55 against)
• Not Guilty of Obstruction of Justice (50 for conviction, 50 against)
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
• Won reelection in 1996 (defeated Bob Dole)
• Was impeached by the House of Reps (Dec. 1998) for perjury & obstruction of justice, but was acquitted by the Senate (Feb. 1999)
• Strong economy - presided over a long period of low unemployment and low inflation
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
• Won reelection in 1996 (defeated Bob Dole)
• Was impeached by the House of Reps (Dec. 1998) for perjury & obstruction of justice, but was acquitted by the Senate (Feb. 1999)
• Strong economy - presided over a long period of low unemployment and low inflation
• Balanced the budget, but achieved an actual surplus in fiscal years 1999 & 2000
Major Events and Policies as President
• Initiated the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1993
• Signed NAFTA in 1993 and lobbied its ratification by Congress
• Signed the Brady Bill in 1993 (waiting period & background check for handguns)
• Ordered U.S. troops in Somalia to capture a local warlord, but withdrew the troops in 1994 after sustaining casualties
• Sent 20,000 U.S. troops to the Balkans in 1995 (part of a NATO mission to stop “ethnic cleansing” as civil war led to the collapse of Yugoslavia)
• Oklahoma City Bombing (1995) - most destructive act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to this time
• Won reelection in 1996 (defeated Bob Dole)
• Was impeached by the House of Reps (Dec. 1998) for perjury & obstruction of justice, but was acquitted by the Senate (Feb. 1999)
• Strong economy - presided over a long period of low unemployment and low inflation
• Balanced the budget, but achieved an actual surplus in fiscal years 1999 & 2000
Presidential Trivia
• Only the 2nd U.S. President ever to be impeached (the other was Andrew Johnson)
• The only Democrat to win reelection to a 2nd term of office as president since FDR
Feb. 2, 1998
Sept. 28, 1998 Dec. 21, 1998 Dec. 28, 1998Sept. 21, 1998Aug. 31, 1998
Aug. 10, 1998March 2, 1998Feb. 9, 1998 Aug. 24, 1998
20th Century: The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton