68 Facts About US President Bill Clinton

1. US President Bill Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978.

2. In 2014, US President Bill Clinton published a second memoir, Hard Choices, which focused on her time as Secretary of State.

3. In 2000, US President Bill Clinton advocated for the elimination of the electoral college.

4. In March 2016, US President Bill Clinton laid out a detailed economic plan, which The New York Times called "optimistic" and "wide-ranging".

5. US President Bill Clinton was defeated by Donald Trump in the November 8, 2016 presidential election.

6. US President Bill Clinton held a significant lead in national polls over Trump throughout most of 2016.

7. US President Bill Clinton was formally nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be nominated for president by a major US political party.

8. US President Bill Clinton resigned from the foundation's board in April 2015, when she began her presidential campaign and the foundation said it would accept new foreign governmental donations from six Western nations only.

9. US President Bill Clinton maintained that she did not send or receive any emails from her personal server that were confidential at the time they were sent.

10. US President Bill Clinton had said over a period of months that she kept no classified information on the private server that she set up in her house.

11. In December 2012, US President Bill Clinton was hospitalized for a few days for treatment of a blood clot in her right transverse venous sinus.

12. US President Bill Clinton opposed the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, for both military and domestic political reasons.

13. In November 2004, US President Bill Clinton announced that she would seek a second Senate term.

14. US President Bill Clinton received sustained national attention for the first time when her husband became a candidate for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.

15. In 2003 US President Bill Clinton would write that her views concerning the American Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War were changing in her early college years.

16. US President Bill Clinton was aided by the surprisingly successful third-party campaign of billionaire Ross Perot, who siphoned off a significant portion of the Republican vote from President Bush.

17. US President Bill Clinton championed affirmative action, appointing record numbers of African Americans to key government positions.

18. US President Bill Clinton lost the race, but it was closer than expected, and the campaign marked him as a rising star of the Arkansas Democratic Party.

19. US President Bill Clinton began teaching at the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville and thrust himself into politics.

20. On September 26, 2014, US President Bill Clinton became a grandfather when daughter Chelsea gave birth to Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky.

21. In 1978 US President Bill Clinton became the youngest governor in the country when he was elected governor of Arkansas.

22. In 2015 Hillary US President Bill Clinton announced that she was entering the US presidential race of 2016, and Bill played an active role in her campaign.

23. In 2000 Hillary Rodham US President Bill Clinton was elected to the US Senate representing New York; she was the first wife of a US president to win elected office.

24. US President Bill Clinton was acquitted of the charges by the Senate in 1999.

25. US President Bill Clinton repeatedly and publicly denied that the affair had taken place.

26. US President Bill Clinton had promised during the campaign to institute a system of universal health insurance.

27. US President Bill Clinton was inaugurated in January 1993 at age 46, making him the third-youngest president in history up to that time.

28. In 1964, US President Bill Clinton graduated from Hot Springs High School, where he was a musician and student leader.

29. US President Bill Clinton was selected as Time "Man of the Year" in 1992, and again in 1998, along with Ken Starr.

30. US President Bill Clinton earned more than $104 million from paid speeches between 2001 and 2012.

31. US President Bill Clinton continues to visit Haiti to witness the inauguration of refugee villages, and to raise funds for victims of the earthquake.

32. In 2009, US President Bill Clinton travelled to North Korea on behalf of two American journalists imprisoned there.

33. US President Bill Clinton spoke in favor of California Proposition 87 on alternative energy, which was voted down.

34. In 2005, US President Bill Clinton announced through his foundation an agreement with manufacturers to stop selling sugared drinks in schools.

35. In 2005, US President Bill Clinton criticized the Bush administration for its handling of emissions control, while speaking at the United Nations Climate Change conference in Montreal.

36. US President Bill Clinton has spoken in prime time at every Democratic National Convention since 1988.

37. US President Bill Clinton appointed the nation's first openly gay or lesbian federal judge when he named Deborah Batts to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

38. US President Bill Clinton experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships did not receive a vote in the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

39. On October 10, 2000, US President Bill Clinton signed into law the US–China Relations Act of 2000, which granted permanent normal trade relations trade status to People's Republic of China.

40. US President Bill Clinton went on to play a key role in the peace talks, which eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

41. In 1992, before his presidency, US President Bill Clinton proposed sending a peace envoy to Northern Ireland, but this was dropped to avoid tensions with the UK government.

42. In 1999 US President Bill Clinton signed into law the Financial Services Modernization Act known as the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, which repealed the part of the Glass–Steagall Act that had prohibited a bank from offering a full range of investment, commercial banking, and insurance services since its enactment in 1933.

43. US President Bill Clinton came out for gay marriage in July 2009 and urged the Supreme Court to overturn DOMA in 2013.

44. On November 30, 1993, US President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady Bill, which mandated federal background checks on people who purchase firearms in the United States.

45. On September 22, 1993, US President Bill Clinton made a major speech to Congress regarding a health care reform plan; the program aimed at achieving universal coverage through a national health care plan.

46. On May 19, 1993, US President Bill Clinton fired seven employees of the White House Travel Office, causing the White House travel office controversy even though the travel office staff served at the pleasure of the president and could be dismissed without cause.

47. On February 15, 1993, US President Bill Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to close a budget deficit.

48. US President Bill Clinton repeatedly condemned Bush for making a promise he failed to keep.

49. US President Bill Clinton scored a resounding victory in New York City, shedding his image as a regional candidate.

50. US President Bill Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.

51. US President Bill Clinton presented himself as both a moderate and a member of the New Democrat wing of the Democratic Party, and he headed the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in 1990 and 1991.

52. US President Bill Clinton gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice the length it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.

53. In 1987, the media speculated that US President Bill Clinton would enter the Presidential race after incumbent New York Governor Mario Cuomo declined to run and Democratic front-runner Gary Hart withdrew owing to revelations of marital infidelity.

54. US President Bill Clinton delivered the Democratic response to Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address and served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

55. US President Bill Clinton became a leading figure among the New Democrats, a group of Democrats who advocated welfare reform, smaller government, and other policies not supported by liberals.

56. US President Bill Clinton worked on educational reform and directed the maintenance of Arkansas's roads, with wife Hillary leading a successful committee on urban health care reform.

57. US President Bill Clinton was only 32 years old when he took office, the youngest governor in the country at the time and the second youngest governor in the history of Arkansas.

58. US President Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1978, having defeated the Republican candidate Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana.

59. US President Bill Clinton spent considerable time in Dallas, at the campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue, where he had an office.

60. US President Bill Clinton eventually moved to Texas with Rodham in 1972 to take a job leading McGovern's effort there.

61. US President Bill Clinton tried unsuccessfully to obtain positions in the National Guard or Air Force, and he then made arrangements to join the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at the University of Arkansas.

62. US President Bill Clinton was a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason.

63. US President Bill Clinton has identified two influential moments in his life, both occurring in 1963, that contributed to his decision to become a public figure.

64. US President Bill Clinton began an interest in law at Hot Springs High, when he took up the challenge to argue the defense of the ancient Roman Senator Catiline in a mock trial in his Latin class.

65. US President Bill Clinton was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

66. US President Bill Clinton left office with the highest end-of-office approval rating of any US president since World War II, and has continually scored high in the historical rankings of US presidents, consistently placing in the top third.

67. US President Bill Clinton is only the second US president to ever be impeached, the first being Andrew Johnson.

68. US President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in 1999 and completed his term in office.