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1 What were the important events of the Clinton Presidency?
Essential Question What were the important events of the Clinton Presidency?

2 President Bill Clinton 1992-2000

3 Bill Clinton - Democrat
Arkansas governor , – youngest in country (32) Pushed for middle class tax cuts and a national health care system Strong alliance with his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, when dealing with politics

4 1992 Election Running mate, Senator Al Gore of Tennessee
Three way race – Clinton (D), George H.W. Bush (R), H. Ross Perot (I) Clinton presented himself as protector of the middle class

5 Ross Perot Texas billionaire Self-funded Independent Party
Govern by sound business principles Reduce the Deficit Opposed free-trade agreements with Mexico and Canada

6 1992 Election

7 A New Democrat Centrists who sought to reconcile liberal and conservative ideals Strong National Defense Tough Stands on Crime Free Trade Welfare Reform Closer Ties with Corporations Gov’t necessary but had grown too large and inefficient

8 Domestic Policy – Budget Deficit
Increased taxes (went against campaign promise to middle class) to deal with budget deficit Critics felt tax increase would hurt economy – did not Presidency longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history

9 New Domestic Policies Family Medical Leave Act – Guaranteed most full time employees 12 weeks unpaid leave for birth of child, to recover from serious illness, or care for sick family member Raised minimum wage Increased access to college loans and tax credits for higher education

10 Domestic Policy – Health Care
Costs rising, millions had no health insurance Hillary Clinton headed special task force proposing a government-sponsored program of health care Defeated

11 Contract with America 1994 midterm elections
Republicans won a majority in both houses of Congress Led by Newt Gingrich

12 Fighting Crime Brady Bill – Gun-control act named for presidential aide James Brady, who was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan. Congress passed $30 billion anti-crime bill which increased funding for police and banned several kinds of assault weapons.

13 Domestic Violence Oklahoma City Bombing – Bombing of the Federal building that killed 168 and wounded more than 800 others by Timothy McVeigh. Columbine High School Shooting – 13 Killed and 24 wounded in Colorado High School. First mass shooting in a school.

14 1996 Election Democrat – Bill Clinton
Republican – Bob Dole, Senator from KS, Decorated WWII Vet. Reform – Ross Perot

15 Balanced Budget 1997 – first balanced budget in 24 years
Congress and Clinton worked to shrink the deficit

16 Scandals Whitewater - Kenneth Starr led investigation into a failed real estate investment of Clintons in 1970s – no formal charges on Clintons Paula Jones Sexual Harassment case – claimed to have taken place while Clinton was governor and she a state employee – case thrown out Monica Lewinsky case – Clinton accused of lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky while he was president and she a White House intern

17 Impeachment Dec. 19, 1998 – the House passed two articles of impeachment (perjury and obstruction of justice) against Clinton Senate did not have 2/3 majority to remove Clinton from office

18 Somalia Civil War led to collapse of Government and widespread famine
US led multinational force to bring peace and distribute food Oct – 18 American soldiers killed as part of a peacekeeping force (Black Hawk Down) Withdrew troops shortly after

19 Haiti Military coup overthrew President Aristide. It sent thousands of Haitians in boats to the U.S. The military mission changed from a combat operation to a peace-keeping and nation-building operation at that point with the deployment of the U.S.-led multinational force in Haiti 1994, U.S. troops restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power

20 Balkan Crisis The collapse of communism broke up the country of Yugoslavia 4 of Yugoslavia’s 6 major republics break away Long suppressed ethnic and religious hostilities erupted Civil War began in newly independent Bosnia and Herzegovina between Serbs (Eastern Orthodox), Croats (Catholic), and Bosnian Muslims. Serbs attack Croats and Bosnians - began ethnic cleansing – state sanctioned mass murder, violence UN (and US) intervenes with humanitarian aid

21 Serbia Slobodan Milosevic led an ethnic cleansing to remove Muslims from this region 1995 – U.S. sent peacekeeping troops with NATO Bombed Serbian Stongholds Dayton Accords – established a federated multi-national Bosnia Ended ethnic cleansing War in Bosnia and U.S. Involvement

22 Kosovo 1998 Fighting began again in Kosovo
Russian Orthodox Serbs attempted to drive Albanian Muslims out of the country US joined with NATO to send troops

23 Rwanda Ethnic genocide killed 800,000 people
Rwanda’s majority Hutu population killed the minority Tutsi population 2,000,000 flee the country UN forces called in - ineffective Clinton refused to send troops

24 Israel Oslo Accords (1993) - Peace agreement between Israelis (Rabin) and Palestinians (Arafat) Promised Palestinian self-rule in Jericho and the Gaza Strip and security for the Israelis Did not address issues of Israeli settlement of the West Bank Extremists on both sides had no interest in compromise

25 1993 Bombing World Trade Center bombed by radical Muslims
A truck bomb exploded in the parking garage 6 people killed, hundreds injured

26 Al Qaeda Network of terrorists organized by wealthy Osama bin Laden
No policy developed for dealing with Muslim extremists American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam bombed killing 225 and injuring more than 5,500 others

27 USS Cole 2000, American Warship off the coast of Yemen, in the middle East Bombed by Muslim terrorists while in port at Yemen 17 American sailors killed

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29 NAFTA 1993 – U.S., Canada, and Mexico formed the North American Free Trade Agreement Eventual creation of a free-trade zone GATT: a revision of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1994.

30 Post-presidency Autobiography – My Life, New York Times bestseller list Presidential library –2004, Little Rock, AR Humanitarian efforts in Africa and Asia, AIDS epidemic Clinton and former President Bush - humanitarian relief, victims of tsunami along coasts of Indian Ocean (2004) Clinton involved in relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina (2004) and created the Haiti Fund to support Haitians after the earthquake (2010)

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