42nd President of the United States
Bill Clinton
“The Comeback Kid”
- In office
- Jan. 20, 1993 – Jan. 20, 2001
- Party
- Democratic
- Home state
- Arkansas
- Lived
- Born 1946
- Days in office
- 2,922
- In order
- No. 42: after George H. W. Bush, before George W. Bush
- Vice president
- Al Gore
Key achievements & events
- Presided over a long economic boom and the first federal budget surpluses since 1969
- Signed NAFTA (1993) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (1993)
- Signed welfare reform (1996)
- Helped broker the Dayton Accords ending the Bosnian War (1995)
- Impeached by the House in 1998 and acquitted by the Senate
Remember: He played the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show during his 1992 campaign.