1. President William Jefferson Clinton

2. 1992 Campaign
Incumbent George H.W. Bush (and Dan Quayle) vs. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton (and Tennessee Senator Al Gore)
3rd party candidate Ross Perot (Texas)
ISSUE: “It’s the economy stupid”

3. Domestic Issues Health Care Reform-rejected by Congress
Nominates 2 Supreme Court justices (First President in 26 years to do so)
1994-Democrats lose Congress to Republicans
1996-Wins reelection
Longest period of growth in economic history

4. Clinton’s Early Accomplishments
“Motor-Voter” Law
Family Medical Leave Act
Brady Handgun Bill—mandated a five day waiting period before purchasing a handgun
Ban on assault weapons
$255 billion in spending cuts and $241 in tax increase
NAFTA

5. NAFTA North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA aims to remove tariffs on most raw materials and manufactured goods

6. Early Setbacks Stimulus package killed in Congress
Campaign finance reform, environmental bills and health care all died in Congress
Clinton loses Congress in the midterm elections

7. Radicals of the 1990’s The Waco siege ends after 51 days
Timothy McVeigh blows up a federal building in Oklahoma City killing 169 lives

8. First Democrat to gain a second term since FDR

9. Monica Lewinsky
Special Federal prosecutor Ken Starr found that President Clinton had lied under oath about his sexual conduct with White House intern Monica Lewinsky
Scandal leads all the way to President Clinton being impeached (but NOT removed from office)

10. Foreign Policy Issues
Somalia
Former Yugoslavia

11. Somalia
Clinton ordered 5300 troops to Somalia to help aid the Somali people in receiving food and other aid from the UN
Result: Clinton orders the immediate withdrawal

12. Former Yugoslavia
Ethnic rivalries lead to conflict in the early 1990’s.
Serbian forces led by President Slobodan Milosevic massacred Albanian civilians
NATO and Clinton sent in troops to help end the ethnic cleansing (Christians and Muslims)