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Rook Welch Mrs. Coker English III 31 March 2016 Bill Clinton William (Bill) Jefferson Blythe IV was born on August 19th, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. Three months before he was born his father tragically died. When he was only two, his mother left him to live with his grandparents. When she remarried, the family moved to Hot Springs, Ark. In his younger years,, Bill was determined for success. He earned academic honors. This gave him the opportunity to go as a nominee to the American Legion Boys Nation program in Washington, D.C., where he met JFK. This inspired him to chase a career in politics. Clinton went to Georgetown University and studied international affairs. He was an intern for Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. He got his B.S.†¦show more content†¦Clinton promised to do away with the policy of returning Haitian refugees to their homeland which was started by the Bush administration, but then he decided to continue the plan. Seeking reelection in 1996, Clinton had a number of achievements. Among them was a deficit-reduction plan, a college-loan repayment plan, the Family and Medical Leave Act, an anti-crime bill, and a welfare reform bill. During his first term, Clinton appointed two members to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer, were the first appointments to the high court made by a Democratic president in 25 years. Clinton succeeded in some of his foreign policy efforts. One of his more controversial decisions was to grant U.S. recogition to Vietnam. In 1994, Clinton deployed troops to Kuwait when Iraq appeared threatening again. Two years later he made the decision to bomb Iraq for violating the terms of peace agreed to at the end of the Persian Gulf War. Clinton demonstrated that he had adjusted to the difficult task of the presidency and had become a good political leader. In 1996, voters chose him over Republican nominee Robert Dole. This made Clinton the first Democratic president since Franklin Roosevelt to be elected to the office twice. The Whitewater affair consumed the president s final years in office. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr s investigation of crimes by Clinton and his wife exposed information that would bring charges of perjury,