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'''William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton''' (born '''William Jefferson Blythe III''', August 19, 1946), was is the 42th president [[sex offender]] who served as the 42nd President of the United States and the spouse of second President to be [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]. Elected twice with [[PluralityImpeachment and removal|pluralitiesimpeached]] in 1992 and 1996, he previously served as governor of Arkansas. His administration was characterized by rampant corruption<ref>http://www.digitalbookocean.info/etext/13228-the_clintons_war_on_women.pdf</ref><ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/14/news/mn-42627</ref> abuse, sexual harassment and blackmail.<ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/14/hillary-clinton-haunted-by-efforts-He is married to-destroy-bill/?page=all</ref><ref>http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/01/flashback-hillary-clinton-threatened-bills-accusers-in-1998/</ref><ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.radio.talk/HNpmtd3ZcCc</ref><ref>http://www.wnd.com/2000/09/1669/</ref><ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-01/why-larry-flynt-is-endorsing-hillary-clinton</ref> The post-[[Cold WarHillary Rodham Clinton]] era reduced defense spending, lower [[interest rate]]s, and created the first woman candidate for president on a flood of ready cash which led to stock major party ticket and real estate bubbles and more scandalwas defeated.
The corrupt Clinton was political machine dominated [[impeachArkansas]]ed by and the national [[United States House of RepresentativesDemocratic Party]] for four decades. Both Clintons were deeply involved in the defunct [[obstruction Bank of justiceCredit and Commerce International]] and scandal. The [[perjuryClinton Foundation]] related to his sexual misconduct in office and abuse of women prior to taking office. The Senate failed to convict along party lines. Clinton was found in contempt by now serves as a federal judge slush fund for lying and barred from ever practicing law againall sorts of nefarious activities globally.
Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary - the "American Evita" - promised "two for the price of one" and are credited was elected twice with debasing modern American political discourse through the [[politics of demonizationPlurality|pluralities]]in 1992 and 1996, he previously served as governor of Arkansas.His administration was characterized by rampant corruption,<ref>[http://www.cbsnewsdigitalbookocean.info/etext/13228-the_clintons_war_on_women.pdf</ref><ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/14/news/mn-42627</ref> abuse, sexual harassment, and blackmail.<ref>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/14/hillary-clinton-americanhaunted-evitaby-efforts-to-destroy-bill/ Hillary Clinton?page=all</ref><ref>https: 'American Evita'], Tatiana Morales, CBS, July 8, 2004//www. Evita was wife of Argentine [[fascist]] dictator Juan Peronthegatewaypundit.com/2016/01/flashback-hillary-clinton-threatened-bills-accusers-in-1998/</ref> He served out his term despite legislative defeats, repeated scandal and being impeached<ref>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.radio.talk/HNpmtd3ZcCc</ref>Whittington (1997)<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2000/09/1669/</ref> <ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-01/why-larry-flynt-is-endorsing-hillary-clinton</ref> The post-[[Cold War]] era reduced defense spending, lower [[interest rate]]s, and created a flood of ready cash which led to stock and real estate bubbles and more scandal.
The [[Chinese Communist Party]] illegally aided Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996 and was awarded entrance into the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) shortly after Clinton left office. After a Special Prosecutor identified 11 [[felon]]ies, Clinton was [[impeach]]ed by the [[United States House of Representatives]] for [[obstruction of justice]] and [[perjury]] related to his sexual misconduct in office and abuse of women prior to taking office. The Senate failed to convict along party lines. Liberal historians call Clinton's impeachment a "partisan [[lynching]]."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/biden-1998-impeach-kfile/index.html</ref> Clinton was found in contempt by a federal judge for lying and barred from ever practicing law again.  Clinton and his wife Hillary - the "American Evita" - promised "two for the price of one" and are credited with debasing modern American political discourse through the [[politics of demonization]].<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-american-evita/ Hillary Clinton: 'American Evita'], Tatiana Morales, CBS, July 8, 2004. Evita was wife of Argentine [[fascist]] dictator Juan Peron.</ref> He served out his term despite legislative defeats, repeated scandal and being impeached.<ref>Whittington (1997)</ref>  After leaving the White House, he became a high-paid speaker in [[liberal]] circles. Clinton is the first former president to be hired by foreign governments. Like other Southern Governors in the tradition of [[George Wallace]], when Clinton was term limited-out his wife ran in his place.<ref>[http://nypost.com/2007/12/27/the-two-fer-problem/ THE ‘TWO-FER’ PROBLEM], By Dick Morris, ''New York Post'', December 27, 2007.</ref> A June 2018 Rasmussen poll found 53% of registered voters consider Bill Clinton a sexual predator.<ref>http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2018/most_voters_say_bill_clinton_is_a_sexual_predator</ref>
==Clinton Foundation==
== The man and the myth ==
[[File:Ghislaine Clinton.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton and [[Ghislaine Maxwell]]; Maxwell was sentrenced to 20 years for child sex trafficing.<ref>https://youtu.be/PKFSXVViEIQ</ref>]]
Clinton was born in Hope,<ref>[[Mike Huckabee]] was born in Hope in 1955, but did not know Clinton.</ref> Arkansas, a month after his father William Jefferson Blythe II, a salesman, was killed in an auto accident. He was raised by his maternal grandparents until age 4, when his mother Virginia Kelly (1923-1994), a nurse, married Roger Clinton (1909-1967), a car dealer. Roger was an alcoholic and violent; the marriage was tempestuous, including a divorce and a remarriage in 1962. A life-long Southern Baptist, Clinton graduated from the Hot Springs public high school in 1964. He attended Georgetown University in Washington D.C., where he became active in Democratic politics.
===Oxford and the CIA===
Contrary to decades old myth, Bill Clinton did not receive a [[Rhodes Scholar]] degree. Clinton was booted out of the Oxford program for the [[rape]] of 19 year old Eileen Wellstone, his first known [[sexual assault]] victim.<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/24/20040624-121742-7463r/?page=allSee The missing Clinton women], By - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 24, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/19/480010/- The Bill Clinton Albatross], DailyKos, Mar 19, 2008. dailykos.com/story</ref><ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/paul-sheehan/undone-by-ghost-of-trysts-past/2008/03/02/1204402265736.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Undone by ghost of trysts past], Paul Sheehan, ''Sydney Morning Herald'', March 3, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/12/29/millennials-guide-bill-clintons-20-sex-scandals A Millennial's Guide to Bill Clinton's 20+ Sex Scandals], ''FOX News'', 29 December 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet Latest anti-Clinton book promises to be most ‘fantastic’ yet], By Alex Seitz-Wald, [[MSNBC]], 09/03/15.</ref> As a result of being tossed out Clinton lost his deferment and was drafted.<ref>Clinton entered Oxford in October of 1968. He was drafted in May of 1969. At first he enrolled in an [[ROTC]] program in Arkansas but failed to show up. In September of 1969 he wrote to the ROTC Commander saying "last summer, when I was as low as I have ever been," referring to being booted out of the Rhodes Scholarship program for rape, being drafted, and risking the loss of his "political viability."</ref> Through his Arkansas political patrons, namely Sen. J. William Fulbright, he was able to evade Vietnam and serve the two years active duty he owed his country in the [[CIA]] as a snitch spying on European anti-Vietnam war movements and their alleged links to Moscow. Cord Meyer was his [[London]] case officer.<ref>ttp://www.umsl.edu/~thomaskp/mormey.htm</ref><ref>
http://web.archive.org/web/20031217035145/http://www.stewwebb.com/CIA%20Clinton%20Named%20as%20Long%20Time%20Spook.html</ref><ref>http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/was-bill-clinton-cia-asset-last-night-i.html</ref> Clinton's Oxford roomate Strobe Talbot, who was fluent in [[Russian]], likewise was recruited to work for the CIA at this same time and translated [[Nikita Khruschev]]'s memoirs which had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in the West by CIA.<ref>http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/jones-project</ref>
During his college days in the 1960s, he also attended, participated in, and even organized various anti-American protest rallies, which included reading from the ''Quotations of Mao Zedong''. Bill and Hillary Rodham met in 1972 while studying law at [[Yale University]]. Inspired by [[Alabama]] Democrat Gov. [[George Wallace]] and his wife Gov. [[Lurleen Wallace]], the two forged a pact to help each other's career - when one was termed-limited out, the other takes over.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-bill-hillary-clinton-marriage-52-years-20140718-story.html</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/27/opinions/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-marriage-drexler/index.html</ref><ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/chinews-mtblog-2007-11-obama_on_the_clinton_secret_pa-story.html</ref> They worked as a team on [[George McGovern]]'s [[1972 presidential election|1972 presidential campaign]] and then on Bill's first unsuccessful bid for the U.S House in 1974. ===Oxford and spying activities===Contrary to decades old myth, Bill Clinton did not receive a [[Rhodes Scholar]] degree. Clinton was booted out of the Oxford program for the [[rape]] of 19 year old Eileen Wellstone, his first known [[sexual assault]] victim.<ref>[https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/24/20040624-121742-7463r/?page=allSee The missing Clinton women], By - The Washington Times - Thursday, June 24, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/19/480010/- The Bill Clinton Albatross], [[DailyKos]], Mar 19, 2008. dailykos.com/story</ref><ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/paul-sheehan/undone-by-ghost-of-trysts-past/2008/03/02/1204402265736.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 Undone by ghost of trysts past], Paul Sheehan, ''Sydney Morning Herald'', March 3, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/12/29/millennials-guide-bill-clintons-20-sex-scandals A Millennial's Guide to Bill Clinton's 20+ Sex Scandals], ''FOX News'', 29 December 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/latest-anti-clinton-book-promises-be-most-fantastic-yet Latest anti-Clinton book promises to be most ‘fantastic’ yet], By Alex Seitz-Wald, [[MSNBC]], 09/03/15.</ref> Despite this, however, he nonetheless was reported to have gotten one, with it being suspected that this dealt more with his adherence to [[radical left-wing]] ideology than to actual academic standing.<ref name="wnd.com">https://www.wnd.com/1999/04/2751/</ref> As a result of being tossed out Clinton lost his deferment and was drafted.<ref>Clinton entered Oxford in October of 1968. He was drafted in May of 1969. At first he enrolled in an [[ROTC]] program in Arkansas but failed to show up. In September of 1969 he wrote to the ROTC Commander saying "last summer, when I was as low as I have ever been," referring to being booted out of the Rhodes Scholarship program for rape, being drafted, and risking the loss of his "political viability."</ref> Through his Arkansas political patrons, namely Sen. J. William Fulbright, he was able to evade Vietnam and serve the two years active duty he owed his country in the [[CIA]] as a snitch spying on European anti-Vietnam war movements and their alleged links to Moscow. He reported to [[Cord Meyer]] in [[London]].<ref>http://www.umsl.edu/~thomaskp/mormey.htm</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20031217035145/http://www.stewwebb.com/CIA%20Clinton%20Named%20as%20Long%20Time%20Spook.html</ref><ref>http://coverthistory.blogspot.com/2008/02/was-bill-clinton-cia-asset-last-night-i.html</ref> Clinton's Oxford roomate Strobe Talbot, who was fluent in [[Russian]], likewise was recruited to work for the CIA at this same time and translated [[Nikita Khruschev]]'s memoirs which had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in the West by CIA.<ref>http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/jones-project</ref> Despite this, however, documents indicated that he attended, participated in, and even organized anti-American rallies as late as while Richard Nixon was president of the United States, even distributing leaflets referring to him as an "imperialist chieftain." In addition, Colonel Eugene Holmes recalled a conversation where Clinton made it sound as though he wanted to join the ROTC in 1969, and left out that Clinton was in fact responsible for participating in and even organizing several anti-war protests, with Clinton also admitting he duped them in a letter afterward.<ref>Col. Holmes Notarized Statement As Entered in Congressional Record (Page: H5551) 7/30/93 September 7, 1992. Memorandum for Record: Subject: Bill Clinton and the University of Arkansas ROTC Program: There have been many unanswered questions as to the circumstances surrounding Bill Clinton’s involvement with the ROTC department at the University of Arkansas. Prior to this time I have not felt the necessity for discussing the details. The reason I have not done so before is that my poor physical health (a consequence of participation in the Bataan Death March and the subsequent three and a half years interment in Japanese POW camps) has precluded me from getting into what I felt was unnecessary involvement. However, present polls show that there is the imminent danger to our country of a draft dodger becoming Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States. While it is true, as Mr. Clinton has stated, that there were many others who avoided serving their country in the Vietnam war, they are not aspiring to be the President of the United States. The tremendous implications of the possibility of his becoming Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces compels me now to comment on the facts concerning Mr. Clinton’s evasion of the draft. This account would not have been imperative had Bill Clinton been completely honest with the American public concerning this matter. But as Mr. Clinton replied on a news conference this evening (September 5, 1992) after being asked another particular about his dodging the draft, “Almost everyone concerned with these incidents are dead. I have no more comments to make”.Since I may be the only person living who can give a first hand account of what actually transpired, I am obligated by my love for my country and my sense of duty to divulge what actually happened and make it a matter of record. Bill Clinton came to see me at my home in 1969 to discuss his desire to enroll in the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. We engaged in an extensive, approximately two (2) hour interview. At no time during this long conversation about his desire to join the program did he inform me of his involvement, participation and actually organizing protests against the United States involvement in South East Asia. He was shrewd enough to realize that had I been aware of his activities, he would not have been accepted into the ROTC program as a potential officer in the United States Army. The next day I began to receive phone calls regarding Bill Clinton’s draft status. I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright’s office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program. I received several such calls. The general message conveyed by the draft board to me was that Senator Fullbright’s office was putting pressure on them and that they needed my help. I then made the necessary arrangements to enroll Mr. Clinton into the ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. I was not “saving” him from serving his country, as he erroneously thanked me for in his letter from England (dated December 3, 1969). I was making it possible for a Rhodes Scholar to serve in the military as an officer. In retrospect I see that Mr. Clinton had no intention of following through with his agreement to join the Army ROTC program at the University of Arkansas or to attend the University of Arkansas Law School. I had explained to him the necessity of enrolling at the University of Arkansas as a student in order to be eligible to take the ROTC program at the University. He never enrolled at the University of Arkansas, but instead enrolled at Yale after attending Oxford. I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a new draft classification. The December 3rd letter written to me by Mr. Clinton, and subsequently taken from the files by Lt. Col. Clint Jones, my executive officer, was placed into the ROTC files so that a record would be available in case the applicant should again petition to enter the ROTC program. The information in that letter alone would have restricted Bill Clinton from ever qualifying to be an officer in the United States Military. Even more significant was his lack of veracity in purposefully defrauding the military by deceiving me, both in concealing his anti-military activities overseas and his counterfeit intentions for later military service. These actions cause me to question both his patriotism and his integrity. When I consider the caliber, the bravery, and the patriotism of the fine young soldiers whose deaths I have witnessed, and others whose funerals I have attended.... When I reflect on not only the willingness but eagerness that so many of them displayed in their earnest desire to defend and serve their country, it is untenable and incomprehensible to me that a man who was not merely unwilling to serve his country, but actually protested against its military, should ever be in the position of Commander-in-Chief of our armed Forces. I write this declaration not only for the living and future generations, but for those who fought and died for our country. If space and time permitted I would include the names of the ones I knew and fought with, and along with them I would mention my brother Bob, who was killed during World War II and is buried in Cambridge, England (at the age of 23, about the age Bill Clinton was when he was over in England protesting the war). I have agonized over whether or not to submit this statement to the American people. But, I realize that even though I served my country by being in the military for over 32 years, and having gone through the ordeal of months of combat under the worst of conditions followed by years of imprisonment by the Japanese, it is not enough. I’m writing these comments to let everyone know that I love my country more than I do my own personal security and well-being. I will go to my grave loving these United States of America and the liberty for which so many men have fought and died. Because of my poor physical condition this will be my final statement. I will make no further comments to any of the media regarding this issue. Eugene Holmes Colonel, U.S.A., Ret. September 1992</ref> In addition, he also spent some time in the 1970s in Moscow, Russia.<ref>http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=38E6633E-F82C-4BFB-8298-FCFCD226ADC3</ref><ref>https://www.aim.org/media-monitor/bill-clintons-soviet-connection/</ref> He either arrived there via plane or by train, and it was also strongly suggested that Clinton got his funding for the trip via the KGB.<ref name="wnd.com"/> Clinton's status as a CIA "Company man" and operative was reactivated in the 1980s as governor of Arkansas when he was called upon to host the [[Mena airport|Mena, Arkansas]] base of operationcs operations for [[Iran-Contra]]. His CIA contacts and relationships ultimately served to further his personal career and ambitions.
===Women's rights===
====Intimidation and blackmail====
{{Cquote|When Hillary hired this fleet of detectives to go around examining all of the woman who had been identified with Clinton. Not for the purpose of divorcing Clinton. Not for the purpose of getting him to stop, but for the purpose of developing blackmail material on these women to cow them into silence that had a [[Nixon]]ian quality that I hold against her and I continue to.|20px|20px|[[Dick Morris]]<ref>[httphttps://www.breitbart.com/video/2014/10/31/dick-morris-i-left-when-hillary-hired-secret-police-to-go-after-woman-victimized-by-bill/ Dick Morris: I Left When Hillary Hired Secret Police to Go After Woman Victimized by Bill], by [[Breitbart.com]], 31 Oct 2014.</ref>}}
One of the more abhorrent aspects of Hillary Clinton's personality is a well documented pattern by multiple Clinton confidants and advisors of intimidation and blackmail toward female victims of Mr. Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct. Mrs. Clinton is accredited with introducing the [[sexist]] [[pejorative]], 'bimbo', into the American political [[lexicon]] to disparage victims of sexual assault by the rich and powerful.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WiQRBN8igE Hillary Clinton calls Bill Clinton's sexual assault victims "Bimbo Eruptions"] youtube.com</ref> The politicalinsider.com identified the problem,
{{Quotebox|One of the most incredible things about Hillary Clinton running for President is that there is an extraordinary long list of scandals that younger voters have never heard of. Just trying to keep up with the multiple decades of corruption and criminal activity of Bill and Hillary Clinton which happened long before the recent email scandal is overwhelming.<ref>[http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/a-woman-who-was-sexually-assaulted-by-bill-clinton-drops-a-bomb-on-hillary-whoa/ A Woman Who Was Sexually Assaulted by Bill Clinton Drops a BOMB on Hillary], thepoliticalinsider.com</ref>}}
The ''New York Times'' noted before the 2016 [[primary election]] season began that the ''’90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton’s Strength With Women'', and Hillary Clinton certainly was not, by any account, a victim, or a victim of her husband's faithlessness.<ref>[httphttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/us/politics/90s-scandals-threaten-to-erode-hillary-clintons-strength-with-women.html ’90s Scandals Threaten to Erode Hillary Clinton’s Strength With Women], By AMY CHOZICK, ''New York Times'', JAN. 20, 2016.</ref>In the recent book, ''The Clinton's War on Women'', the authors cite a [[Sociology|sociological]] phenomena known as [[elite deviance]] in a society where the elites no longer believe the rules apply to them and their behavior is justified and facilitated by a cadre of [[sycophant]]s, [[apologist]]s, supporters, and surrogates collectively known as the Clinton smear machine.<ref>httphttps://www.lifezette.com/polizette/the-hillary-clinton-smear-machine/</ref><ref>''[http://greatbookcorner.com/data/thepopularbook.site/T/the-clintons-war-on-women-roger-stone--93pfuGF9wiHCc6-8BX16-8ZvB6-8AVI6d.pdf The Clinton's War on Women]'', pp. 16-17 pdf.</ref>
To locate, stalk, harass, and intimidate the women, Betsy Wright was put in charge of the operation. According to [[Carl Bernstein]], "Betsy's operation became known as 'The Defense Department', and Wright was sometimes known as the 'secretary of defense'"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=KG8oDvWH3ZYC&pg=PT612&dq=Carl+Bernstein+betsey+wright+defense+department+clinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x4RWU4edAcLjsATguYHYAQ&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Carl%20Bernstein%20betsey%20wright%20defense%20department%20clinton&f=false A Woman in Charge], Carl Bernstein, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 5, 2007</ref> For this Jack Palladino, Terry Lenzner, Ivan Duda, Jerry Parks,<ref>http://bonedjello.com/Articles/The%20Murder%20of%20Jerry%20Parks.html</ref> Anthony Pellicano, and others were employed.<ref>[httphttps://www.wnd.com/2005/07/31278/ The real story behind the Clinton body count], ''[[WorldNetDaily]]'', 07/13/2005. Review of Richard Poe’s, ''Hillary’s Secret War.'' wnd.com</ref><ref>[http://alamo-girl.com/02742.htm PRIVATE AND PUBLIC INVESTIGATIVE RESOURCES], SECTION: SECRET POLICE, Revised 8/10/00. http://alamo-girl.com</ref><ref>[http://www.mega.nu/ampp/foster.html Reports Tie Clinton Sexcapades to Foster's Death]. mega.nu</ref>
To silence the women, all sorts of threats and intimidation were common, such as murdering the family pet on the doorstep or blatant threats against the lives of their children.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=1v5e4lZiS08C&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=pellicano%2Bhillary&source=bl&ots=2QSRhFU8QY&sig=zFCzv6MqE1JDMGwraPnD1XL3TB8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyuqCkgYDNAhVLz2MKHdJwA9AQ6AEI3AEwIg#v=onepage&q=pellicano%2Bhillary&f=false Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, WND Books, 2007.</ref><ref>[httphttps://www.wnd.com/2007/11/44416/ PI 'admits' Hillary paid him to harass Willey], WND, 11/07/2007.</ref> [[Pornographer]] impresario [[Larry Flynt]] was called to boot a $1,000,000 reward to anybody to come forward with sexual innuendo, whether true or not, to attack Clinton's enemies with.<ref>[httphttps://observer.com/2000/08/its-poker-night-with-larry-flynt-porn-king-discourses-on-sex-gore/ It’s Poker Night With Larry Flynt! Porn King Discourses on Sex, Gore], By Andrew Goldman, ''New York Observer'', 08/28/00</ref>
Hillary's obsession with sexual blackmail wasn't limited to compromising and silencing disgruntled mistresses or women Bill Clinton assaulted, it became a ready tool against political opponents as well. To politicsl opponents and the women, Clinton surrogates routinely use the material, truth not being a factor, dug up by Hillary's investigator's to slime anyone publicly who wouldn't fall into line. A recent lawsuit filed just days after it became evident Trump was considering using the case of Joe Epstein in the election is intended to neutralize criticism.<ref>https://youtu.be/EPlDvVwER7A</ref> And the surrogates relish their jobs. Indeed, many Clinton supporters believe this is the essence of [[politics]] — slander, defamation, and demonization of living human beings — not formulation or discussion of public policy.
The general pattern of the Clinton's being above the law is illustrated the Juanita Broadderick case from 1978.
Rumors circulated about Broaddrick's allegations for many years, but she refused to speak to the media. In an interview with ''Dateline NBC,'' that aired after the impeachment trial, Broaddrick claimed she had indeed been [[rape]]d by then Arkansas [[Attorney General]] Bill Clinton.<ref name="NBCinterview">''Dateline NBC'': February 24, 1999. ''The Washington Post'' [httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/broaddrick022599.htm published a story about the interview] on February 25, 1999.</ref> The abuse put Broadderick in a quandry: who could she turn for help in a case against the state's highest ranking [[law enforcement]] official?
Broaddrick first met Clinton when he made a visit to her nursing home during his first gubernatorial bid. Broaddrick offered to volunteer for the campaign, and Clinton invited her to stop by the campaign office in Little Rock.<ref name=NYT>''New York Times'': [httphttps://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/24/us/on-tortuous-route-sexual-assault-accusation-against-clinton-resurfaces.html On Tortuous Route, Sexual Assault Accusation Against Clinton Resurfaces]. February 24, 1999.</ref> She contacted the office a few weeks later when she was in Little Rock for a nursing home conference. Clinton said he would not be in the office that day and suggested they meet at her hotel’s coffee shop instead. Upon his arrival, however, he allegedly requested that they instead have coffee in her room to avoid a crowd of reporters in the lobby. Broaddrick agreed.<ref name="NBCinterview" />
Broaddrick says the two spoke briefly in her room, then Clinton suddenly kissed her.<ref name="NBCinterview" /> Broaddrick pushed Clinton away and told him she was married and not interested, but he persisted. As recounted in the NBC interview:<ref name="NBCinterview" />
Three weeks later Broaddrick attended an event where the Clintons would be in attendance at the home of a local dentist.<ref name="NBCinterview" /> Broaddrick said she was “in denial,” and felt guilty, thinking that she had given Clinton the wrong idea by letting him into her room.<ref name="NBCinterview" /> When she arrived she says, her friend who had picked the Clintons up from the airport told her that Hillary Clinton had asked if she would be at the event.<ref name=FOXinterview>''FOX News'': Interview with Sean Hannity. June 10, 2003. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KZ8ICvutc0 Excerpt] available via YouTube.</ref> Broaddrick says Clinton did not speak to her at the event, but his wife Hillary approached her, took her hand, and said 'I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate what you do for him.”<ref name="FOXinterview" /> When Broaddrick moved her hand away, she says, Mrs. Clinton held on to her and said, "Do you understand? Everything that you do."<ref name="FOXinterview" /> Broaddrick says she felt [[nausea]]ted and left the gathering. Broaddrick says she interpreted the incident as Mrs. Clinton thanking her for keeping quiet.<ref name="FOXinterview" />
In 1984, Broaddrick's nursing facility was adjudged the best in the state, which brought a congratulatory official letter from the governor. On the bottom was a handwritten note from Clinton, saying, "I admire you very much."<ref name=WSJ>''Wall Street Journal'': [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB919379691540145000.html Juanita Broaddrick Meets the Press]. February 19, 1999.</ref> Broaddrick said that in 1991, Clinton called her out of a state nursing standards meeting to try to apologize. In response to his apologies, as she told ''[[The Washington Post]]'', "I told him to go to hell, and I walked off".<ref name=WashingtonPost-Feb25-1999>Kurtz, Howard (February 25, 1999). [httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/broaddrick022599.htm "Clinton Accuser's Story Aired"]. ''[[Washington Post]]''. p. A15.</ref> Darden also attended the meeting, and said she saw Broaddrick talking to Clinton in the hallway.<ref name="NBCinterview" />
Lisa Myers if NBC, who conducted the ''Dateline'' interview, added she had no reason to doubt the veracity of Broadderick's accusations.
[[Rhodes Scholar]]ship program. As is common knowledge, women's rights, [[prosecution]] of offenders, and protection for rape victims in 1969 were not what they are today.
The prestigous Rhodes Scholarship is an elite program intended to cement Anglo-American relations and train tomorrows world leaders. Clinton was recommended for the program in 1968 by his Georgetown Professor Carol Quigley and his political mentor, the notorious [[segregation]]ist Senator J. William Fulbright. It's a two year program. Clinton recieved received a draft deferment from conscription into the US Army during the Vietnam war for his enrollment in the program. It has been stated that 99% of all Rhodes Scholars graduate, the only cause of failing to graduate being death. Dropping out, or being thrown out, is/was virtuslly virtually unheard of.
Eileen Wellstone is an English woman who came forward saying Clinton raped her in 1969 after she had met him at a pub near the University. A retired State Department employee confirmed that he spoke with the family. The employee said he believed the story of Miss Wellstone.<ref>httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20070516192906/http:/chblue.com/Feb1999/022599/clintonwomen022599.htm</ref>
"There was no doubt in my mind that this young woman had suffered severe emotional trauma, But we were under tremendous pressure to avoid the embarrassment of having a Rhodes Scholar charged with rape." The State Department official who investigated the incident said Clinton's interests appeared to be drinking, drugs and sex, not studies. "I came away from the incident with the clear impression that this was a young man who was there to party, not study."<ref>http://albertpeia.com/oxfordassault.htm</ref>
The victim's family declined to pursue the case; Wellstone re-confirmed the incident in 1999, but asked to be left alone.<ref>{{Cite news |url=httphttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jun/24/20040624-121742-7463r/?page=all |title=The missing Clinton women|author=The Washington Times | publisher= Washington Times |date= June 24, 2004}}</ref>
In his book, ''Unlimited Access'', former FBI agent [[Gary Aldrich]] reported that Clinton left Oxford University for a "European Tour" in 1969 and was told by University officials that he was no longer welcome there. Aldrich said Clinton's academic record at Oxford was lackluster.
Having been thrown out of Oxford, Clinton lost his draft deferment. Clinton entered Oxford in October 1968, according to David Maraniss, and recieved received a draft induction in late July 1969. Yet the focus of news reporting in the [[United States presidential election, 1992|1992 presidential election]] was on championing Clinton as a 'Rhodes Scholar' while never asking how it was possible for a Rhodes Scholar with a draft deferment to recieve receive a draft notice. The issue focused on his failure to report for induction rather than the fact that he ''was not'' a Rhodes Scholar, that he had been thrown out of Oxford, or the reason for being thrown out.
=====Other assaults=====
Arkansas state troopers assigned to protect Clinton have knowledge of at least seven other complaints from women who said Clinton forced himself on them sexually or attempted to do so.<ref>[http://www.shwiggie.com/articles/clintons.html Living with the Clintons, Bill's Arkansas bodyguards tell the story the press missed], By David Brock, 1993</ref>
A Little Rock legal secretary named Carolyn Moffet claimed that in 1979, she met the governor at a political fundraiser and shortly afterward received an invitation to meet him in a hotel room. She was escorted there by a state trooper. When she arrived he was sitting on a couch wearing an undershirt and nothing else, and angrily assaulted her. She was able to escspe before being raped. Moffet received threatening phone calls. “He said that people who crossed the governor usually regretted it and that if I knew what was good for me I’d forget that it ever happened...I haven’t forgotten it. You don’t forget crude men like that.”<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2014/12/15/why-hillary-is-not-inevitable-bills-sordid-past/</ref>
Elizabeth Ward Gracen, a former Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982 told friends she was forced by Clinton to have sex with him shortly after she won her state crown.<ref>http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-trashing-of-clintons-women-6422690</ref> Clinton media surrogates publicly hype and boast of Clinton's manliness and ''machismo'' for his sexual conquest if Miss America.
An Arkansas state employee named Paula Corbin filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after she said the governor exposed himself and demanded sex in a Little Rock hotel room. President Clinton finally settled the case with Paula Corbin in 1998 with an $850,000 cash payment.<ref>
httphttps://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/18/jones/</ref>
Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser said Clinton invited her to his hotel room when he was in Washington in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress. She says she screamed loud enough for the Arkansas state trooper stationed outside the hotel suite to bang on the door and ask if everything was alright. Then, she said, Clinton released her and she fled the room. When she reported the incident to her boss, he advised her to keep her mouth shut if she wanted to keep working. ‘’My husband and children deserve better than that..I wasn’t raped, but I was trapped in a hotel room for a brief moment by a boorish man...I got away. He tried calling me several times after that, but I didn’t take his phone calls. Then he stopped. I guess he moved on.” She said she learned other women had similar stories during Clinton’s 1992 presidential run. She has since married and left Washington and retreated from public view.<ref>http://m.digitaljournal.com/article/255828</ref>
Christy Zercher, a flight attendant on Clinton’s campaign plane in 1992, reported that he exposed himself to her, groped her, and made explicit sexual remarks. A video filmed on board the plane by [[ABC News]] showed an obviously drunken Clinton with his hand on intimate parts of another young flight attendant. Zercher said later in an interview that White House attorney Bruce Lindsey tried to pressure her into not going public about the assault.<ref>http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/12/29/millennials-guide-bill-clintons-20-sex-scandals/</ref>
Kathleen Willey was a volunteer at the White House when Clinton grabbed her, fondled her, and pressed her hand against himself during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993. Willey, who told her story in a [[60 Minutes]] interview, became a target of a White House–directed smear campaign after she went public.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Target-Caught-Crosshairs-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0974670162 Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton], Kathleen Willey, World Ahead Publishing, Nov 6, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0974670164 ISBN-10: 0974670162 </ref> In 1998, just before Willey was to testify in the Paula Jones trial, Willey had a disturbing encounter where she was approached by a jogger near her home. The complete stranger asked her menacing questions about her children, naming them by name. According to Willey, "I'll never forget that look in his eyes . . . He just looked at me and he said, 'You're just not getting the message, are you?'" On Hardball in 1999, [[MSNBC]] host [[Chris Matthews]] identified the mysterious jogger as [[Cody Shearer]].<ref>https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-other-secret-dossier/article/2011477</ref>
The other encounters were confirmed with more than 30 interviews with retired Arkansas state employees, former state troopers and former Yale and University of Arkansas students. Like others, they refused to go public because of fears of retaliation from the Clinton White House and smesr machine.
“Meanwhile, the Clinton spin machine did its best to portray his accusers as ‘nuts or sluts,’ ...against women who dare to hold men accountable for their actions,” Vennochi wrote.<ref>https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/11/21/rape-allegations-hurt-bill-cosby-but-sail-past-bill-clinton/YTIsUoXS2uxrW1mW2JSuRM/story.html</ref>
====Joe Jeffrey Epstein, convicted registered pedophile and co-founder of the Clinton Foundation====[[File:Epstein-bill-clinton-1200x630.jpg|left|350px|thumb|Bill Clinton with Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein.]]According to billionaire Joe [[Jeffrey Epstein]], he helped found the Clinton Foundation.<ref name="foxnews.com">httphttps://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/06/billionaire-sex-offender-epstein-once-claimed-co-founded-clinton-foundation.html</ref> Epstein also founded his own Epstein Foundation.
When the Clinton's left the White House in 2001, Bill spent more time with his cohort and business associate commonly known in the media as 'the billionaire pervert'. His friend is involved in a child sex trafficking ring. He is a registered sex offender for sex crimes involving children.<ref>httphttps://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2011/02/28/jeffrey-epstein-sex-offender-yes-billionaire-no/#669f83922136</ref>
Clinton's [[pedophile]] friend and associate, Jeffrey 'Joe' Epstein, is a donor to the Clinton Foundation.<ref name="foxnews.com"/> He began making donations shortly after his arrest on child sex charges. Epstein recieved a relatively light sentence in view of the charges against him. Epstein has settled lawsuits with 33 of his child victims. Other suits are still pending.<ref>httphttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2584309/Bill-Clinton-identified-lawsuit-against-former-friend-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-regular-orgies-Caribbean-compound-former-president-visited-multiple-times.html#ixzz3NysnRS27</ref> Epstein is said to have provided minor girls for Prince Andrew. When the Palm Beach Florida police seized Epstein's contact book,<ref>http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-and-jeffrey-epstein-9086711</ref> 21 different phone numbers and email addresses for Clinton machine operatives were discovered, including the personal cell number for Bill Clinton, and numbers for Bill's flunky Doug Band and Hillary's flunky Cheryl Mills.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2015/03/27/cheryl-mills-the-woman-who-knew-too-much/</ref>
Epstein owns property in Manhattan, Palm Beach and the Virgin Islands where the child molestation acts are said to have taken place.<ref>http://nypost.com/2011/02/25/billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-im-a-sex-offender-not-a-predator/</ref> Seized flight logs in the investigation reveal Clinton flew on Epstein's private plane 18 times.<ref>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/05/18/morning_joe_panel_clintons_connection_to_billionaire_pedophile_jeffrey_epstein_will_blow_up_campaign.html</ref> It has been established some of these flights were to Epstein's Virgin Islsnds retreat.<ref>httphttps://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/07/judge-unseals-more-details-in-jeffrey-epstein-underage-sex-lawsuit-210065</ref> A woman who victims name as procurring underage girls is s donor to the Hiilary Clinton Presidential campaign and attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in 2010.<ref>http://snn.bz/clinton-4ss/</ref>
In 2007 former Whitewater prosecutor [[Ken Starr]], whom critics accuse of whitewashing the Vince Foster investigation,<ref>http://www.prorev.com/knowl2a.htm</ref> defended Epstein from a second conviction of having sex with a 14 year old minor.<refname="justice-integrity.org">http://www.justice-integrity.org/faq/791-ken-starr-explains-his-help-for-billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein</ref> Starr was forced out of his position as president of Baylor University in May 2016 for mishandling another sex scandal.
===Racism===
[[File:''See also Bill-clinton-orval-faubus-1991.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Bill Clinton with a trusted advisor, [[Orval Faubus]] in 1991. Faubus sent over 200 National Guardsmen to block 7 Black children from registering at a white school in 1957.<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-15/news/vw-739_1_orval-faubus</ref>]]:{{See also|Bill and Hillary Clinton and racism|Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign]]''}}Hillary Clinton is The Clintons are known for her their cynical manipulation of Black voters and pandering to "white working class, hard-working white" nativist sentiment.<ref>https://youtu.be/vjoMcqMTMfw</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/ijhL3-5sr18</ref> Reminiscent of her Hillary's famous "bring them to heel" speech, while discussing police shootings Hillary said, "We have got to rein in what is absolutely inexplicable" without bothering to explain what is inexplicable.
HillaryThe Clinton's racism runs deep. The night Bill Clinton lost his bid for a Congressional seat in 1974 and disappointing their immediate personel personnel ambitions, Hillary blamed the loss on campaign manager Paul Fray. "She called me everything but a white man," Fray explained to the [[BBC]].<ref>https://youtu.be/_VonG4TyTWw</ref> Tensions escalated. Then she called him a "F***ing [[Jew]] bastard." The Cinton's of course deny it but five separate surving witnesses corroborate each other in detail.<ref>httphttps://dailycaller.com/2016/07/05/three-eyewitnesses-allege-hillary-called-aide-a-fking-jew-bastard/</ref><ref name="Did Hillary commit a hate crime">[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200007/ai_n8910772 Did Hillary commit a hate crime?], Human Events, July 28, 2000.</ref> The incident was first reported in a book published by Harper Collins in 2000 entitled, ''State of a Union: Inside the Complex Marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton''.<ref name="Did Hillary commit a hate crime"/><ref>httphttps://www.amazon.com/State-Union-Complex-Marriage-Hillary/dp/0060193921</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/US_election_race/Story/0,,344475,00.html Hillary faces voters' wrath for alleged ethnic slur], Michael Ellison, London Guardian, July 18, 2000.</ref><ref>[http://www.sobran.com/columns/1999-2001/000718.shtml Hillary’s Manners], Joseph Sobran, July 18, 2000.</ref><ref>[http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=15015 I agree with Clinton!], Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily, July 20, 2000.</ref>
The Clintons call [[Jesse Jackson]] that "Goddamn n****r" behind Clinton begun his back.<ref>http://polidics.com/news/hillary-clintons-jew-bastard.html</ref><ref>http://rapmusic.com/threads/hillary-clinton-hates-blacks-and-jews-caught-first two years in the Arkansas State House in 1979 as governor by-inviting the-secret-service-and-endorsers.1074368/</ref><ref name="emptysuit.wordpress.com">https://emptysuit.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-clintons-jews-and-niggers-warning-graphic-language/</ref><ref>http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/racial-slurs-are-unsettling-if-used-by-celebrity-chefs-or-top-democrats/</ref> Jackson refused to release his delegates in 1984 to venomous old [[Gary Hartsegregation]], Clinton's old boss from the ist [[McGovernOrval Faubus]] campaign of 1972. Jackson, the first African-American to win states in a major party primary, questioned the disparity between place of honour at his vote total and delegate count, but even Hart sided with the DNC's rigging the primary rulesinaugural ceremony.<ref>[httphttps://www.nytimestheguardian.com/1984world/051999/20apr/us18/disparity-between-jackson-s-vote-and-delegate-count-vexes-partyclinton.html?pagewanted=all DISPARITY BETWEEN JACKSON'S VOTE AND DELEGATE COUNT VEXES PARTY], By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, ''New York Times'', May 20, 1984.</ref> In 1988 Jackson selected Ron Brown as his chief negotiator at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.<ref>https://socialistworker.org/2016/07/25/how-democrats-got-over-the-rainbow<</ref> Brown went on to serve as DNC Chairman and Commerce Secretary until he died in a plane crash.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Ron-Browns-Body-Presidency-Hillarys/dp/0785262377usa</ref>
The Clintons call [[Jesse Jackson]] that "Godd*** n*****" behind his back.<ref>http://polidics.com/news/hillary-clintons-jew-bastard.html</ref><ref>http://rapmusic.com/threads/hillary-clinton-hates-blacks-and-jews-caught-by-the-secret-service-and-endorsers.1074368/</ref><ref name="emptysuit.wordpress.com">https://emptysuit.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-clintons-jews-and-niggers-warning-graphic-language/</ref><ref>https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/racial-slurs-are-unsettling-if-used-by-celebrity-chefs-or-top-democrats/</ref> Jackson refused to release his delegates in 1984 to [[Gary Hart]], Clinton's old boss from the [[McGovern]] campaign of 1972. Jackson, the first African-American to win states in a major party primary, questioned the disparity between his vote total and delegate count, but even Hart sided with the DNC's rigging the primary rules.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/20/us/disparity-between-jackson-s-vote-and-delegate-count-vexes-party.html?pagewanted=all DISPARITY BETWEEN JACKSON'S VOTE AND DELEGATE COUNT VEXES PARTY], By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM, ''New York Times'', May 20, 1984.</ref> In 1988 Jackson selected Ron Brown as his chief negotiator at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.<ref>https://socialistworker.org/2016/07/25/how-democrats-got-over-the-rainbow<</ref> Brown went on to serve as DNC Chairman and Commerce Secretary until he died in a plane crash.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Ron-Browns-Body-Presidency-Hillarys/dp/0785262377</ref> The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was a racist organization formed by remnants of the McGovern and Hart campaigns - less the [[Rainbow Coalition]].<ref>http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html</ref><ref>https://ofamerica.wordpress.com/tag/democratic-leadership-council/</ref> By 1992 it had taken over the DNC. Democratic strategists sought to distance themselves from the civil rights movement and begin pushing the "centrist" candidacy of Bill Clinton.<ref>[httphttps://www.salon.com/2016/01/31/the_clintons_sordid_race_game_no_one_will_say_it_but_the_clintons_rise_was_premised_on_repudiating_black_voters/ The Clintons’ sordid race game: No one will say it, but the Clintons’ rise was premised on repudiating black voters], Corey Robin, ''Salon'', Jan 31, 2016</ref>
That fact that 30 year old allegations of sexual asssult and improprieties are hurled at [[Bill Cosby]] with a devastating effect on his life and career while Bill Clinton is held up as a paragon of manhood and public service by the media and judicial system is a testament of the bigotry and racism of the mainstream media and their supporters. Rumors persist that the Clinton's have effectively blackmailed Barack Obama to drop thd email investigation and for his active support in the 2016 presidential campaign.<ref>http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/07/media-gets-facts-wrong-on-loretta-lynchbill-clinton-tarmac-meeting/</ref>
 
====Orval Faubus====
 
In June 1974, a few months before Clinton would narrowly lose his congressional bid, he sat down for an interview with an oral history project.<ref>https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-reconstruction_us_56a7f9c3e4b04936c0e8a6c9</ref> Reaching out to the notorious [[segregation]]ist was just good politics, he told the interviewers.
 
“When did you build this friendship with Faubus?” one asked.
 
“When I got ready to run for Congress,” Clinton answered.
 
“But wouldn’t he be the last guy to go see, represented the old time machine?” the interviewer pressed.
 
“No, no. See, that’s why I got elected. Because I don’t do things — I don’t think in terms of that,” Clinton said.
 
“But wouldn’t the liberal mind, whatever it is in this district, think that way?”
 
“Well, the liberal mind might, but I don’t have a liberal mind, I guess, if that’s the way they think. It’s a matter of politics and how you get votes,” Clinton said of doing his dance with [[white supremacist]]s. “Faubus has a fine mind and a lot of influence in these hills, these people, and knows things that are worth knowing. The reason that they will vote for me, if they do, the people, even if they think that I’m liberal, whatever that is, is that I’ll sit down with all these people and talk to them.”
====Violations of African American voting rights====
In Arkansas, the [[Clinton administration ]] was sued several times by blacks and [[Hispanic]]s for violations of the 1965 [[Voting Rights Act]] and lost every case. 10 years into their grip on Arkansas the [[United States Supreme Court]] ruled
{{Quotebox|violations of the [[Fourteenth amendment|fourteenth]] or [[fifteenth amendment]] justifying equitable relief have occurred in Arkansas.
====Robert 'Say' MacIntosh====
Robert 'Say' MacIntosh is a civil rights activist who the ''Arkansas Democrat'' newspaper named Arkansan of the Year in the late 1970s for his charitable work with children in Little Rock's housing projects.<ref>httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20080926012344/http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss97-43.html</ref> MacIntosh unsuccesfully ran for public office under Arkansas's racial gerrymanderring and minority [[voter suppression ]] laws of the Clinton era, including as Lieutant Governor in 1980. He considered challenging Bill Clinton in the 1986 Democratic gubernatorial primary, but backed out when another African-American candidate, former anti-poverty agency head W. Dean Goldsby, filed on the last day.[[File:Arkansas State Flagof Arkansas.gif|right]png|thumb|The Arkansas State Flag. The top star above Arkansas represents the slave holding Confederacy, an Act signed into law by Clinton.]]
A tree was ceremoniously planted on the Arkansas capitol grounds in the Clinton years on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to honor Dr. King. McIntosh showed up the next day and chopped it down in front of the press, and commented, "No black man was invited to be present for the tree planting. I'm cutting it down till blacks are invited to be part of the political process in Little Rock." Wikipedia says "few debate that he has been a major part of local color in Arkansas."<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_"Say"_McIntosh</ref>
MacIntosh publicized allegations Bill Clinton fathered an out of wedlock child named Danney Williams.<ref>https://twitter.com/danney_williams?s=09</ref> When Bill Clinton was in Little Rock, McIntosh would distribute leaflets within a five block area to raise money for the child's upbringing. He had frequent face-to-face confrontations with Gov. Clinton over child support. Clinton privately referred to MacIntosh with aides using the "n" word.<ref name="emptysuit.wordpress.com"/>
The story resurfaced during the 2008 primaties, only this time the denials weren't so strong and adopted a more forgiving attitude.<ref>httphttps://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2008/01/17/sex-lies-and-major-headlines</ref><ref>http://epubbookonline.com/b/3035/roger-stone/the-clintons-war-on-women/27</ref> Many blacks and Obama supporters were put off by the mainstresm media spin and questioned the untimely death of Ron Brown.<ref>http://wc.blackplanet.com/news/article_comments.html?news_item_id=46467</ref><ref>http://aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com/2007/12/blacks-clintons-presidency-and-ron.html</ref> Even the ''Washington Post'' noticed the racial undercurrent in Hillary Clinton's campaign.<ref>httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/22/AR2007122201762.html</ref>
====Death of Ron Brown====
====Black lives don't matter====
On the eve of the [[New Hampshire]] primary in 1992, Bill Clinton took off from the campaign trail to sign the death warrant and oversee the execution of a retarded black man, Ricky Ray Rector. Recktor, who had been lobotomized, was mentally incompetent and unable to understand the charges against him.
<ref>[https://skepticalbrotha.wordpress.com/tag/christopher-hitchens/ Christopher Hitchens], Skeptical Brotha. Retrieved 23 June 2016</ref><ref>[http://www.blackstarnews.com/us-politics/elections/bill-clinton-hopped-up-on-whack-ricky-ray-rector-part-2.html Bill Clinton "Hopped Up On Whack" -- Ricky Ray Rector Part 2], Colin Benjamin, Black Star News, April 13, 2016</ref> "It was like executing a child," the prison chaplain said. Hillary, the master strategist of the Clinton's rise, fearing the Willie Horton syndrome which torpedoed [[Michael Dukakis]] in 1988 and the 'monkey business' which destroyed [[Gary Hart]] as well, still defended the execution in 2016.<ref>[https://theintercept.com/2016/03/17/hillary-clintons-indefensible-stance-on-the-death-penalty/ Hillary Clinton’s Indefensible Stance on the Death Penalty], Liliana Segura, ''The Intercept'', Mar. 17 2016</ref><ref>[httphttps://www.salon.com/2016/01/31/the_clintons_sordid_race_game_no_one_will_say_it_but_the_clintons_rise_was_premised_on_repudiating_black_voters/ Jan 31, 2016 04:00 AM MDT The Clintons’ sordid race game: No one will say it, but the Clintons’ rise was premised on repudiating black voters], Corey Robin, ''Salon'', Jan. 31, 2016</ref>
Hillary was at his side when Bill Clinton raised mandatory sentencing guidelines which disproportionately sent Blacks to prison, giving the United States the highest mass incarceration rate in the world.<ref>[https://newrepublic.com/article/129433/clintons-war-drugs-black-lives-didnt-matter The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter], By Donna Murch, ''The New Republic'', February 9, 2016</ref> The Clinton's championed the “three strikes you're out” law, passed a crime bill that created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some three-time offenders, and authorized more than $16 billion for more state prisons. By the time the Clinton's left office in 2001, the United States had the highest rate of incarceration in the world. [[Human Rights Watch]] reported that in seven states, African Americans constituted 80 to 90 percent of all drug offenders even though they were no more likely than whites to use or sell illegal drugs. Prison admissions for drug offenses reached a level in 2000 for African Americans more than 26 times the level they had been under [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-does-not-deserve-black-peoples-votes/ Why Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote], Michelle Alexander, ''The Nation'', February 10, 2016</ref>
In late 2015, while several American cities smoldered in riots over police shootings, Hillary Clinton had several prison industry lobbyists working as fundraisers on her campaign. The fundraiser-lobbyists worked for the Corrections Corporation of America and Geo Group, which also run most of the [[immigrant]] detention centers.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/while-missouri-students-battle-racism-prison-lobbyists-funded-hillary-clintons-campaign_b_8553370.html While Missouri Students Battle Racism, Prison Lobbyists Funded Hillary Clinton’s Campaign], H.A. Goodman, ''Huffington Post'', Nov 13, 2015</ref>
====Racial profiling of Hispanics====
In 1992 for the first time in nearly half a century the party platform made no mention of redressing racial injustice. Through triangulation and a policy of 'get tuff on crime', the Clinton's sought to repudiate and distance themselves from the Democratic party's commitment to the struggles of [[African-American]]s. The Clinton's formulated a crime bill purportedly to 'put 100,000 new cops on the street'. Hillary became one of the chief spokespersons referring to black teens as dogs.
{{Cquote|They are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators.’ No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way but first we have to bring them to heel.<ref>[httphttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-slams-clintons-racist-1996-super-predators-comment/ Bernie Sanders slams Clinton's "racist" 1996 super predators comment], By Reena Flores, CBS News, April 14, 2016</ref><ref>[http://fair.org/extra/superscapegoating/ Superscapegoating], Teen 'superpredators' hype set stage for draconian legislation, By Robin Templeton, FAIR, 1 Jan 1998</ref>}}In the 2008 presidential primaries, the Clinton's were back at it: fostering racial fear and paranoia,<ref>[http://www.alternet.org/story/80258/america's_new_racial_reality%3A_white_minority_status America's New Racial Reality: White Minority Status], While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear. By Roberto Lovato / New America Media, March 21, 2008</ref> which by now seemed to be the regular program of the Democratic Leadership Council.<ref>[http://www.blackcommentator.com/46/46_cover.html Muzzling The African-American Agenda With Black Help], Bruce A. Dixon, ''The Black Commentator''. www.blackcommentator.com</ref> They tried to marginalize Obama as the black candidate with comparisons to Jesse Jackson<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/26/bill-clinton-obama-is-jus_n_83406.html Bill Clinton: Obama Is Just Like Jesse Jackson], ''Huffington Post'', 03/28/2008</ref> emphasizing Hillary's 'wide appeal': "Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again", Hillary told ''USA Today''.<ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-05-07-clintoninterview_N.htm Clinton makes case for wide appeal], By Kathy Kiely and Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY, 5/8/2008</ref> She mocked and ridiculed Obama's fitness to lead on his no first strike nuclear pledge saying, "I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons," whereas two months earlier she promised to nuke Iran. She stayed in the race even after it became apparent she lost, according to her, only because Obama might be assassinated.
As heir to the [[New Deal]] tradition and key to the New England donor base, Sen. [[Ted Kennedy]]'s blessing on the candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination was vital. The Clinton's also were seeking bona fides among liberals and the [[civil rights]] movement. Clinton said of Obama, "that boy would have been carrying our bags and getting us coffee a few years ago".<ref name="urbanintellectuals.com">[http://urbanintellectuals.com/2015/07/17/did-you-know-bill-clinton-made-racist-comments-about-barack-obama-when-he-first-ran-for-president/ Did You Know Bill Clinton Made Racist Comments About Barack Obama When He First Ran For President], F. Taylor, Urban Intellectuals, July 17, 2015.</ref> Kennedy was offended by Clinton's racism and refused to give Hillary the endorsement.<ref>[httphttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/apr/28/hillaryclinton.usa Hillary has cynically turned to the one argument she has left: race], Gary Younge, ''Guardian'' UK, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.alternet.org/story/80258/america's_new_racial_reality%3A_white_minority_status America's New Racial Reality: White Minority Status], While Obama raises the bar for racial understanding, the Democratic Leadership Council leverages white voter fear. By Roberto Lovato / New America Media, March 21, 2008.</ref> ====Segregation====Here’s what Bill Clinton said when he eulogized his mentor, an Arkansas senator: {{quotebox|"We come to celebrate and give thanks for the remarkable life of [[J. William Fulbright]], a life that changed our country and our world forever and for the better. . . . In the work he did, the words he spoke and the life he lived, Bill Fulbright stood against the 20th century’s most destructive forces and fought to advance its brightest hopes.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>}} So spoke President William J. Clinton in 1995 of a man was among the 99 Democrats in Congress to sign the “[[Southern Manifesto]]” in 1956. The Southern Manifesto declared the signatories’ opposition to the Supreme Court’s decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' and their commitment to segregation forever. Fulbright was also among those who [[filibuster]]ed the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]]. That filibuster continued for 83 days.
== Arkansas and the DLC ==
===Democratic Leadership Council===
The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) formed in early 1985 to formulate a moderate Democratic agenda. With Al From as executive director and Georgia Senator [[Sam Nunn ]] as chairman, DLC comprised mostly Southern Democratic congressmen. They sought to rebuild the party's image after a series of defeats by Reagan and Bush. They wanted to assure voters that the moderate-conservative wing of the party was alive and well, and that [[progressive]] policy initiatives may be marketable to mainstream America. After the Democrats 1988 defeat, From asked Clinton in March 1990 to become the first DLC Chair from outside Washington. He and Clinton recruited state and local officials from around the country for the DLC, trying out talking points for [[New spending#New vs old spending authority|new spending authority]] initiatives developed by an affiliated think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). Proposals that found their way into Clinton's 1992 platform included:
* Apprenticeship programs for non-college-bound skilled workers
* A program of national service for college students (with student loan forgiveness)
==1992 Presidential election==
:''Main article:'' [[United States presidential election, 1992]]
After the surge of support for the war policy of President [[George H.W. Bush]] pushed his popularity to the 90% level, most prominent Democrats decided to wait out the 1992 election. Clinton's main rival, Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts, called Clinton "pander bear" who "will say anything, do anything to get votes."<ref>[httphttps://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/07/us/the-1992-campaign-democrats-saying-clinton-is-cynical-tsongas-goes-on-the-attack.html THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Democrats; Saying Clinton Is Cynical, Tsongas Goes on the Attack,] By RICHARD L. BERKE, ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 07, 1992.</ref> Appalled by both candidates support of the pending [[NAFTA]] agreement, billionaire [[Ross Perot]] entered the race, ran on a balanced budget and anti-free trade, and briefly led the polls. Both Bush and Perot proved poor campaigners, as Clinton and his running mate [[Al Gore]] made promises tailored by focus groups and opinion polls. Republicans tried to use the character issue, questioning his failure to the draft board as required by law and stories of his illegal drug use in college days. [[Cheryl Mills]] ran the "bimbo unit" aimed at targetting and harassing Clinton's sexual assault vicitms to intimidate them into silence. Bush however was handicapped by a bad economy, and was wounded badly among moderates and conservatives for breaking a promise to not raise taxes. Clinton hammered away at the economy--"It's the economy, stupid!" explained his campaign manager. Clinton and Gore ran as "[[New Democrat]]s", promising to cut middle class taxes, increase [[direct spending]], end welfare cash payments "as we know it", and support capital punishment. Clinton won a [[plurality]] over Bush 43% to 37%, with 19% for Perot.
Clinton thus entered Washington with a Democratic Congress and a vague agenda. As the first President born after [[World War II]], Clinton represented the "baby-boom" generation.
==1993-1997, First Term U.S. Presidency==<center>{{Cquote|People should not be able to raise questions and erode people's moral authority in this country.|20px|20px|Bill Clinton, Press Conference, March 24, 1994 <ref>William J. Clinton, [httphttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=49863 The President's News Conference, March 24, 1994]</ref>}}</center>
:''Main article:'' [[Clinton administration‎‎]]
Clinton was hailed by liberals and the media for his intellect. Alan Greenspan, who served six presidents in a long career said of Clinton after their first meeting, "for sheer intelligence, Bill Clinton was on a par with [[Richard Nixon]]."<ref>Alan Greenspan, ''The Age of Turbulence'', Penguin Press, 2007, p. 144.</ref> Throughout his time in the Presidency, he was also rather notorious for being the subject of various endless bull sessions in a similar manner to college to allow for "open debate",<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110321034932/https://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/12/09/the-young-presidents-bill-clintons-lack-of-savvy-in-washington-showed</ref><ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_alinskys_rule.html</ref><ref>http://www.policyconference.org/article/transcripts/2017/begala.asp</ref> of which at least 76 cases were documented in the book "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President."<ref>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/secret-tapes-of-bill-clintons-latenight-white-house-revelations.html</ref>
===Death of Vince Foster===
Five monthes into Clinton's first term the body of White House Counsel [[Vince Foster]] was found shot to death one day after Bill Clinton took the unprecedented step of firing the head of the [[FBI]]. Under the law, the FBI would normally be should have been the lead agency charged with the investigation of investigating the death of a high ranking Executive Branch official. Foster was the highest-ranking Executive Branch official killed since John F Kennedy. It was led by the relatively inexperienced US Park Service in the Department of the Interior.
''Forbes'' magazine Senior Editor James Norman uncovered evidence that Fosters Foster had a Swiss bank account and was under investigation by the US government for [[espionage]] at the time of his death. <ref>[http://www.fbicover-up.com/jim-norman.html WRRK radio interview] December 7, 1995</ref><ref>[http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/James%20Norman%20Media%20Bypass.pdf Media ByPass article] October, 1995</ref> An FBI interview report by agent Russell Bransford and a handwritten note from the Office of Independent Counsel found at the National Archives refer to Vince Foster's Swiss bank account.<ref>[http://www.fbicover-up.com/ewExternalFiles/VWF%20Swiss%20Account.pdf FBI Agent Bransford interview report] April 21, 1994 and Independent Counsel notes November 13, 1995</ref> Norman wrote to the White House Press press office to inquire about these allegations. <ref>https://ia600203.us.archive.org/7/items/VinceFoster-NSA-Banking-Transactions-Spying/Allegations%20Regarding%20Vince%20Foster%2C%20the%20NSA%2C%20and%20Banking%20Transactions%20Spying/01%20Jim%20Norman%20sends%20a%20memo%20to%20the%20White%20House%2c%20which%20leaks%20it%20to%20a%20Starr%20assistant.txt</ref> White House chief of staff Abner Mikva leak leaked a copy of Norman's inquiry to Mark Tuohey, deputy Independent Counsel investigating Foster's death. <ref>[https://ia600203.us.archive.org/7/items/VinceFoster-NSA-Banking-Transactions-Spying/Allegations%20Regarding%20Vince%20Foster%2C%20the%20NSA%2C%20and%20Banking%20Transactions%20Spying/26%20Abner%20Mikva%20resigns.%20Did%20Foster%20have%20knowledge%20of%20too%20many%20felonies%3f.txt Abner Mikva resigns. Did Foster have knowledge of too many felonies?] by Orlin Grabbe</ref> Both Mikva and Touhey we're forced to resign resigned because of the apparent conflicts of interest and interference [[collusion]] in an independent investigation. <ref>[http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1995-09-21/news/9509210485_1_house-counsel-mikva-bernard-nussbaum] Mikva resigned to "spend more time with his family." Contemporaneous news reports say nothing about resigning to accept a federal judgeship.</ref> Tuohey, who has been accused by Miguel Rodriguez, a US Attorney Miguel Rodriguez on the staff of the Independent Counsel, of sabotaging the investigation into Foster's death, <ref>https://youtu.be/V34XC56LFFY</ref> then went to work representing the Rose Law Firm - the firm Vince Foster, Hillary Clinton, and Webster Hubbell all we're employed by representing to represent clients of the Independent Counsel's Whitewater investigation.<ref>httphttps://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/09/us/courier-at-little-rock-firm-recalls-shredding-after-the-inquiry-began.html</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/06/magazine/ken-starr-would-not-be-denied.html </ref>
Chief Counsel to the Watergate Committee, Sam Dash, the new 'independent' counsel's 'ethics' advisor, ruled there was no conflict of interest in Tuohey's working for the Rose Law Firm. Hillary Clinton previously served on the Congressional [[Watergate]] Committee as well.<ref>https://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/021198starr-dash.html</ref> Independent Counsel [[Ken Starr]] later defended Clinton's friend and co-founder of the [[Clinton Foundation]],<ref name="foxnews.com"/> registered [[pedophile]] Joe Epstein, from a second [[felony]] conviction in a child rape case.<ref name="justice-integrity.org"/> ===Community Reinvestment Actand the mortgage crisis===
:''Main article:'' [[Community Reinvestment Act]]
One of President Clinton's early acts was an overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA). In 1995 the implementing regulations were strengthened by focusing government regulators' attention on a financial institutions' performance in doling out credit within specified communities. Clinton's changes to the CRA<ref>{{cite web
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|publisher=[[The White House]] }}</ref> substantially increased the amount of home loans to unqualified low-income borrowers and, for the first time, allowed the [[securitization]] of CRA-regulated loans containing subprime mortgages.<ref>{{cite web |title=Congress Tries To Fix What It Broke
|url=http://news.investors.com/091708-490605-congress-tries-to-fix-what-it-broke.htm
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|date=2008-09-17|publisher=''[[Christian Science Monitor]]''
Howard Husock wrote:<ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html The Trillion-Dollar Bank Shakedown That Bodes Ill for Cities], Howard Husock, ''City Journal'', Winter 2000</ref> "The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act into ...a vast extortion scheme against the nation's banks. Under its provisions, U.S. banks have committed nearly $1 trillion ... the evaluation process allowed advocacy groups a chance to express their views on individual banks" to receive a favourable CRA rating. These community groups worked out individual agreements and commitments from the Fannie Mae-backed lenders. A radical group called ACORN Housing "has a $760 million commitment from the Bank of New York; the Boston-based Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America has a $3-billion agreement with the Bank of America; a coalition of groups headed by New Jersey Citizen Action has a five-year, $13-billion agreement with First Union Corporation," among a host of others.
Clinton told Jim Lehrer in an interview on the PBS Newshour,<ref>[httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTZIB6Sika4 Bill Clinton,] [[PBS]] Newshour, January 21, 1998. [[YouTube]]</ref> January 21, 1998,
{{Cquote|The Community Reinvestment Act was set up to say to the bank regulators: Look, you guys go in and look at these banks and tell them, you got to take some of your money<ref>(sic) a bank does not invest its own money, it lends out depositors money under the [[prudent man rule]]; President Clinton obviously was in error in this gross misstatement or distortion of fundamental facts regarding the responsibilities of people entrusted to make judgments in handling other peoples money.</ref> and invest it in inner cities and neighborhoods, and with people who otherwise would not get it so they have a chance to build homes, to build businesses, to create jobs, to build neighborhoods. In the 20-year history of the Community Investment Act, 85 percent-plus the money loaned out under it to poor inner city neighborhoods has been loaned in the five years since I've been President.}}
The threat of civil action caused many mortgage lenders to make what otherwise would be considered risky loans. For example, the lead attorney for [[ACORN]] Housing, [[Barack Hussein Obama]], sued Citibank in 1995 to force them into making [[Subprime loan|subprime mortgage]]s to unqualified minority borrowers. Obama alleged that, although his clients had been denied mortgages "because of delinquent credit obligations and adverse credit," they were really victims of institutional racism. The suit was brought about by the Community Reinvestment Act, so called "affirmative action mortgage lending." The plaintiffs won $60,000, Obama and two other attorneys were paid $950,000 <ref>[httphttps://www.forbes.com/2009/10/03/community-reinvestment-act-mortgages-housing-opinions-contributors-peter-schweizer.html A Poisonous Cocktail: Expanding the Community Reinvestment Act], Peter Schweizer, ''[[Forbes]]'', 10.05.09. ''Selma S. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank'',</ref>
===Too big fail and the modern bailout culturebailouts===
[[Image:ClintonPresident.jpg|right|thumb|275px|Bill Clinton's Presidential cabinet]]
Clinton refered to the Mexican [[bailout]] in his memoirs as, "one of the biggest crisis of my first term", and quotes Tom Friedman of the ''[[The New York Times]]'' saying it was the "least popular, least understood, most important foreign policy decision of the Clinton presidency."<ref>''My Life'', Bill Clinton, Knopf, 2004, pp. 641-645.</ref> It was the brainchild of Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin and chief economic adviser [[Larry Summers]] who later served President Barack Obama in the same position. Clinton claims it took him 10 minutes to decide on the $20 billion bailout. Polls showed 79% of the American people opposed it, with little support in Congress.{{Citation needed}}
Critics cite the modern bailout culture of the [[Recession of 2008]] as originating with Clinton's Mexican bailout. It was allegedly designed to help Mexico using $20 billion from the U.S. Treasury Department's [[Exchange Stabilization Fund]] by [[Executive Order]]. Congress did not authorize it. And it was done, not for the Mexican banks sake, but for the big [[Wall Street]] banks, Citibank, Bankers Trust, and others that were over-exposed to risk for bad loans they made in Mexico. PBS's [[Bill Moyers]] calls it "[[Crony capitalism]]", "and so the idea got started that Washington would be there with a prop, with a bailout, with a helping hand." <ref>[http://billmoyers.com/episode/crony-capitalism/ Crony Capitalism,] Moyers and Company, PBS, January 20, 2012.</ref>
=== Budget and tax increases ===
Clinton's first priority while coming into office was a $60 billion [[stimulus]] package largely viewed as a payoff to big city mayors for Get-Out-The-Vote efforts. He also sent Congress a proposal to reduce the deficit in eleven years. However, the country's real problem was that about half of government spending goes to [[nondiscretionary entitlement]] programs such as [[social security]] and [[medicare]]. Refusing to control domestic spending, he increased taxes on ordinary consumers for gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas, breaking his campaign pledge not to raise taxes.<ref>Clinton repeatedly mocked incumbent President George H.W. Bush on the campaign trail for breaking his pledge to "read my lips, no new taxes."</ref> On Aug. 10, 1993, the largest tax increase in history was signed into law, raising taxes by almost $280 billion over five years.<ref>J.D. Foster, Ph.D. [httphttps://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/03/tax-cuts-not-the-clinton-tax-hike-produced-the-1990s-boom#_ftn1 Tax Cuts, Not the Clinton Tax Hike, Produced the 1990s Boom], ''[[Heritage Foundation]]'', March 4, 2008.</ref> Instead of middle-class tax relief, President Clinton chose to include in his $241 billion tax plan higher federal gasoline taxes, tax hikes on Social Security recipients, and steep income tax hikes on small business owners.<ref>''The President's Forgotten Middle Class,'' Joint Economic Committee, Majority Staff, 3/22/96.</ref> Conservatives blocked some proposals, such a new $71 billion [[BTU energy tax]] that would have cost the typical family nearly $500 per year.
===Tax increases on those least able to afford it===
In 1993 President Clinton sought to increase taxes on [[Social Security]] benefits of the elderly and disabled.<ref>[http://www.uscare.com/sceact.html Senior Citizens' Equity Act]</ref> The final version of the bill passed by the [[Democrat]]ically controlled Congress increased taxes on beneficiaries from the first 50% to 85%<ref>[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20040408115747/www.ssa.gov/OACT/HOP/hopi.htm HISTORY OF THE PROVISIONS OF OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE]</ref> of benefits (or "annuity payments" as they were originally called). [[Vice President]] [[Al Gore]] cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in the Senate to make the tax increase law. The Clinton-Gore tax increase on Social Security benefits imposed a 70% [[income tax]] rate on a retired couple making as little as $22,000 per year.<ref>[httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=vLg4iJR0J9kC&pg=PA16593&lpg=PA16593&dq=Vice+President+Gore+cast+the+tie-breaking+vote%2Bsocial+security&source=bl&ots=-ImIDX6fHa&sig=ttWVUNAIVsLQoEg1ZhCntHB_02Y&hl=en&ei=dobVTMr9HoOglAe0iuX9CA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Vice%20President%20Gore%20cast%20the%20tie-breaking%20vote%2Bsocial%20security&f=false Congressional Record, Comments by Rep. Christopher Cox,] July 27, 2000.</ref>
===DNC Fundraising scandals===
In 1994 Clinton invited his longtime golfing buddy, Sen. [[Christopher Dodd]], to serve as chairman of the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) and its chief fundraiser. Dodd also occupied the position of ranking Democrat, and later chairman of the Senate Banking Committee tasked with oversight of the nation's banks and financial institutions. Dodd left the DNC in 1997, after accusations that he mishandled charges that a top DNC fundraiser had collected millions in illegal donations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120410185006/httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/christopher-j-dodd/gIQAmFfM9O_topic.html Christopher J. Dodd,] ''[[The Washington Post]]''.</ref>
===Dirty tricks and blackmail===
FBI special agent Gary Aldrich reported, James Carville and former Clinton adviser, now [[ABC News]] anchor [[George Stephanopoulos]] confirmed, after the [[Gingrich revolution Revolution]] of 1994 the Clinton administration ran a dirt-digging operation out of the Office of the White House Chief of Staff. "They hired upwards of 36 lawyers to staff the operation to handle 40 different cases," Aldrich, on White House duty at the time, said. "Once it became known that they had such an operation, then the blackmail itself took place." Carville and Stephanopoulos stated publicly there would be a "scorched-earth policy", and that everyone who had "skeletons in their closet" would be exposed.<ref>httphttps://www.salon.com/1998/08/05/news_94/</ref><ref>httphttps://www.nationalreview.com/article/418513/stephanopouloss-long-long-record-loyal-service-clintons-john-fund</ref> Hard on the heels of these threats news that "a reporter" was about to break a story confirming the White House's use of investigators to dig up dirt on critics and investigators. The 28 year old son of Brit Hume of Fox News, Sandy Hume, was found dead in his home from an "apparent" suicide.<ref>http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=45030</ref> The Clinton attack machine concocted a narrative Sandy Hume took his life because he was a gay alcoholic.<ref>httphttps://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2012/02/22/why-has-it-taken-14-years-to-debunk-the-baseless-sandy-hume-rumor/</ref> [[CNN]] reported on private divorce papers of [[Newt Gingrich]] were indeed removed from what was alleged sealed storage at the Carroll County, Georgia courthouse, "when he (Gingrich) became the center of attention." The documents were later made public by [[CNN]].<ref>[httphttps://www.cnn.com/2011/12/26/politics/gingrich-divorce-file/index.html Newly recovered court files cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce], [[CNN]]</ref>
In 1995 President Clinton and Congressional Republicans fought a bitter battle over the new federal [[budget]]. Clinton vetoed the Republican's efforts to move toward a balanced budget, claiming that it cut social programs. Speaker Gingrich believed that Clinton would back down and approve the budget. If not, the entire government would shut down because of lack of funds. Clinton allowed just that, and by doing so gained political capital by successfully blaming that shut down on Republicans. Clinton always opposed a balanced budget until it was reality.<ref>[http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/no-bill-clinton-didnt-balance-budget No, Bill Clinton Didn’t Balance the Budget,] By Stephen Moore, October 8, 1998. [[Cato Institute]].</ref>
 
===Illegal immigrant voters===
In February 1996 HUD Secretary [[Henry Cisneros]] forwarded a memo to Bill Clinton. The memo, from the California Active Citizenship Campaign (ACC), complained of a backlog of alien applications for naturalization in Los Angeles. It contained the words: "INS inaction [on the backlog] will deny 300,000 Latinos the right to vote in the 1996 presidential elections [sic] in California."
 
Documents show that Clinton asked Doug Farbrother of the National Performance Review (NPR) staff to look into removing barriers to citizenship not only in Los Angeles but also in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Miami — major cities in four swing states. The INS concentrated on aliens in key states — California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, and Texas — that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89 short of the total needed to win the election. In a memo to the President, Farbrother noted Commissioner Meissner’s concern that expediting the backlog might look politically motivated and suggested two options. Farbrother stated that "we can reduce — but not eliminate -- the risk of controversy over our motives by appointing one of our proven NPR reinventors as Deputy INS Commissioner . . . As part of the official INS management team, our reinventor would have more direct influence and the INS staff would be less likely to go public with complaints than they would over the interference of an outsider." The memo observed that "reinventors" should be put in many other agencies, as well, to replace leaders who "don’t ‘get it.’"
 
The White House wanted any applicant for citizenship to be naturalized in time to register for the November election, so the pressure on the INS was constant. On March 21 Elaine Kamarck in the Vice President’s office sent an e-mail to Farbrother saying: "THE PRESIDENT IS SICK OF THIS AND WANTS ACTION. IF NOTHING MOVES TODAY WE’LL HAVE TO TAKE SOME PRETTY DRASTIC MEASURES." Farbrother responded, "I favor drastic measures." If he couldn’t get what he wanted from the INS, he wrote, he would "call for heavy artillery."
 
Federal regulations require that, for an alien to obtain citizenship, his application for naturalization (citizenship) must be accompanied by a complete set of the alien’s fingerprints. The fingerprint cards are then sent to the FBI to determine if the applicant has a criminal or arrest record. The law provides that an application may be denied if the alien has a serious criminal record or if he falsely denies ever having been arrested, even if he was never convicted.
 
In the INS district offices, the alien applicant for naturalization cannot be scheduled for a personal interview until at least 60 days after the application is submitted. This delay is specifically intended to allow sufficient time for an FBI fingerprint check. If the check reveals an arrest record identification, the arrest report is inserted in the alien’s file prior to the interview. An arrest record does not automatically result in a denial of citizenship, but it alerts an examiner to spend additional time questioning the applicant and to request that he furnish further information.
 
If there is no criminal arrest record in the file prior to the interview, the examiner will assume that none exists. For that reason, the INS has always considered the FBI fingerprint check to be the only practical way of preventing violent felons, dope peddlers, and the like from obtaining citizenship. Any breakdown in the collecting, checking, and reporting of the fingerprints can cause a breakdown of the entire process.
 
Congressional investigators discovered that FBI arrest records that were being sent to INS offices simply were not being inserted into the aliens’ files. As a result, aliens with criminal records were being granted citizenship.
===Anti-gay measures ===
:''Main article'' : [[Don't Ask, Don't Tell]]
Shortly after being inauguarated, Clinton signed an executive order establishing the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" rule. Congress later passed legislation that was veru very similar. In 2010, the law was found [[unconstitutional]] in federal court after a suit brought by [[Log Cabin Republicans]], a homosexual rights and advocacy organization.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39089475/ns/us_news-life/ Judge: Military's gay ban is unconstitutional], [[MSNBC]]</ref>
=== Nepotism and Hillary's first bid for national power ===
Skocpol (1996) suggests the major mistake may have been in emphasizing the cost-reducing aspect of the plan, not realizing that Americans were willing to pay for a government program that would provide generous benefits to them. The fear that Clinton's proposals would lead to the sort of health care rationing prevalent in Canada and other countries further troubled the voters. Starr (1997) notes that Clinton sought to achieve liberal ends of universal coverage through the conservative means of managed competition among private health plans, with a backup cap on the rate of growth in average insurance premiums. This approach had a political as well as policy rationale. It was meant to be the basis of an alliance that could include conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans and thereby achieve the majorities necessary for congressional passage. But what we saw as compromise, they did not—especially as the very locus of the political center shifted to the right during the debate. Health care reform that seemed "inevitable" to many serious observers at the start became unthinkable by the end. Polls showed strong initial support, but he never secured passage in either house of Congress and Republican victory in the 1994 elections doomed his plans.
 
===Jamie Gorelick===
Assistant Attorney General [[Jamie Gorelick]] created a 1995 classified memo that forced a wall preventing communication between intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, which had the consequence of indirectly setting up the events of the [[September 11 attacks]] later on.<ref name="newsmax.com">https://www.newsmax.com/Pre-2008/Gorelick-s-Memo-Impeded-Probe/2004/04/26/id/679464/</ref>
== 1994 Midterm elections ==
{{See also|Republican Revolution (1994)}}Clinton's popularity had slipped by 1994 and the GOP, under [[Newt Gingrich]] launched a national midterm campaign based on a Republican "[[Contract with America]]". The centerpiece of the proposals was a [[balanced budget]], along with lower taxes, welfare reform, tougher anti-crime laws, term limits for Congress, and revised rules in Congress. Clinton responded by calling it "extreme".<ref>Prior to the 9/11 attacks, [[mainstream media]] outlets routinely used the terms "extremist" and "terrorist" interchangeably, and they were only too willing to oblige demonizing Republicans and Republican ideas as "extremist".</ref>
In the elections of 1994, the Democrats lost 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and 8 seats in the Senate (followed by two defections after the election), giving the Republicans a majority in both houses of Congress for the first time since 1954. The Republicans also had a net gain of 12 governors' seats in that election.
Analysts have suggested many causes for the drastic change in political sentiment in the country between 1992 and 1994; among the causes suggested were voter disgust at Congressional scandals mainly implicating Democrats, voter distrust of Clinton after the presentation and defeat of the Clinton health care reform proposal—dubbed "Hillarycare"; the nationalization of the election by Gingrich's "Contract with America", and more skilled framing of issues by the Republicans in 1994.
In their first 100 days , the House passed most items of the Contract with America. Eventually , seven of ten items became law, with the term limits failing. Some GOP members voluntarily adhered to the term limit pledge.
==1996 Presidential election==
After the Republicans took control of Congress by the time of the 1996 reelection campaign the economy had improved. [[Unemployment]] and inflation was low, American wages increased, crime rates fell, and the number of people on welfare declined. The [[Republican Party]] nominated Senate Majority Leader [[Robert Dole]]. Ross Perot ran again, this time on the Reform Party, but his day was past. Clinton again won only a plurality with 49% of the popular vote. His personal victory had limited coattails, with Republicans retaining a clear majority in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House. It also marked the first time since 1926 and 1928 that the Republican Party carried the House in two consecutive elections.<ref>http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/access/17342942.html?dids=17342942:17342942&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+11%2C+1996&author=Don+Fedr&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=A+night+to+cheer+for+conservatives&pqatl=google</ref>
Clinton successfully hi-jacked hijacked the Reagan Recovery. By the mid -1990s, the "tickle trickle down" of the 1980s turned into a flood of prosperity.
===Chinagate and illegal fundraising===
{{main|Chinagate fundraising scandal}}
Agents of China sought to give contributions to the [[Democratic National Committee]] (DNC) before the [[United States presidential election, 1996|1996 presidential campaign]] in violation of US law barring non-American citizens from donating money to American politicians and political parties.<ref>Woodward, Bob and Duffy, Brian, [httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/china1.htm "Chinese Embassy Role In Contributions Probed"], ''Washington Post'', February 13, 1997.</ref> This as well as a similar scandal dating back to the 1992 campaign was also suspected to have directly resulted in then-assistant Attorney General [[Jamie Gorelick]] creating a 1995 classified memo that forced a wall preventing communication between intelligence agencies and law enforcement organizations, which had the consequence of indirectly setting up the events of the [[September 11 attacks]] later on.<ref name="newsmax.com"/>
==1997-2001, Second Term U.S. Presidency==
With the [[Cold War]] over, government borrowing and interest rates were much lower, and after the [[Republicans]] won control of Congress the budget was not only balanced but a surplus was produced for the first time in memory. The reasons include reduction in defense spending after the Cold War (from 5% of GDP to 3%), a revenue burst from the [[dot-com bubble]] (the short-lived overexpansion of high tech), restraints on spending imposed by [[Newt Gingrich]] and the GOP Congress, and the fruition of Reagan era tax cuts for business research and development in the consumer electronics (computer and cell phone) industry.
David Gergen, former White House Communications Director for both Presidents Reagan and Clinton, summarized the hurt of the President's misconduct:
{{Cquote|The deep and searing violation took place when he not only lied to the country, but co-opted his friends and lied to them....when you have gone over the line, you won't bring others into it...You don't foul the nest."<ref>[httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/quinn110298.htm In Washington, That Letdown Feeling], By Sally Quinn, ''[[The Washington Post]]'', November 2, 1998, Page E01</ref>}}
Clinton lost his law license because he had committed ethical violations for lying in federal court. It was during this scandal that Clinton famously stated: "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/21/newsid_2525000/2525339.stm On This Day September 21st 1998: Clinton's Grand Jury testimony released], [[BBC]]</ref>
===Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act and the Crash of 2008===
President Clinton signed into law the Financial Modernization Act of 1999 in November of the same year. The Act repealed parts of the [[Great Depression|Depression era]] Glass-Steagall Act. In signing President Clinton remarked, "It is true that the Glass-Steagall law is no longer appropriate for the economy in which we live."<ref>[http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/ls241.aspx STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON AT THE SIGNING OF THE FINANCIAL MODERNIZATION BILL,] 11/12/1999, [[U.S. Department of the Treasury]] Press Center.</ref> The Glass-Steagall Act strictly regulated Bank Holding Companies (BHCs) and the types of assets banks could hold as part of their capitalization. The formal repeal allowed for large banks, such as Goldman Sachs, to form newly created [[Financial Holding Companies]] (FHCs) and merge with insurers and other financial institutions with potentially riskier liabilities. By 2008, the result of the repeal of Glass-Steagall was "too big to fail" behemoths like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. The repeal of Glass-Steagall is considered one of the larger contributing factors to the [[Financial crisis of 2008]].<ref>[httphttps://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/08/27/repeal-of-glass-steagall-caused-the-financial-crisis Repeal of Glass-Steagall Caused the Financial Crisis,] By James Rickards, USNews, August 27, 2012.</ref>
The repeal of Glass-Steagall also was recognition of other changes that had taken place, such as the [[Federal Reserve]]s' revision of Regulation Y in 1997, making it easier for Bank Holding Companies with a satisfactory [[Community Reinvestment Act]] (CRA) rating to receive quicker approval for new acquisitions and engage in other activities. University of Texas-Dallas economist Stan Liebowitz noted, “Banks that got poor reviews were punished; some saw their merger plans frustrated; others faced direct legal challenges from the [[Justice Department]].<ref>''[httphttps://www.economist.com/node/10837333 The Proposition's rebuttal] [[The Economist]]'' Mar. 20, 2008.</ref> [[Alice Rivlin]], Clinton's Budget Director whom he later appointed to the Federal Reserve, said it would make the banking system "operate better as a result."<ref>[http://www.frbsf.org/publications/community/investments/cra97-3/regy.html Regulation Y Revised - Changes to the Federal Reserve Application Process,] Community Investments, Volume 9; No. 3; Summer 1997, By Mike Johnson, Applications Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.</ref>
When Citibank sought federal approval for a merger with Travelers Group, it was only OK'd by the Clinton administration after it promised to provide $115 billion for Community Reinvestment Act "anti-redling" loans. Promises made by other financial institutions added up to $600 billion between 1993 and 1998, according to a 2000 Treasury Department report.<ref>[http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/090412-624522-obama-launched-subprime-crisis-with-lawsuit.htm?p=2 Subprime Bubble] ''Investors Business Daily'', 09/04/2012.</ref>
===Sale of Fannie Mae derivatives and subprime mortgages===
[[Fannie Mae#Franklin Raines era|Franklin Raines]], Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae, was appointed by Clinton as Director of the the [[Office of Management and Budget]] (OMB) in 1996; in 1999, he returned to Fannie Mae as CEO. One of his first acts was to lower Fannie Mae's underwriting guidelines and begin purchasing subprime mortgages implementing Clinton's National Homeownership Strategy under the Community Reinvestment Act.<ref>[httphttps://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending,] Steven A. Holmes, ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 30, 1999.</ref> Raines was named (along with Bill Clinton) by ''[[Time magazine]]'' on it's list of ''25 People to Blame for the [[Financial Crisis of 2008]]''.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877335,00.html The good intentions, bad managers and greed : behind the meltdown, Blameworthy : Frank Raines], ''[[Time magazine]]''.</ref>
Clinton hired [[Peter Orszag]] as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in 1997; as concern grew over Raines management of Fannie Mae, Raines hired Orszag to reassure investor's fears about the safety of Fannie Mae's purchase of subprime mortgages. Orszag made the fantastic claim that Fannie Mae's risk of [[insolvency]] was 1 in 500,000, and more likely 1 in 3 million. After Fannie Mae really did collapse, Barack Obama then made Orzsag his Budget Director.
When Raines took the appointment at Fannie Mae, Clinton replaced his services with [[Jack Lew]], who worked in the Clinton White House throughout all eight years. Upon leaving the White House Lew secured a job at Citibank as Chief Operations Officer on Robert Rubins recommendation. Lew received $1 million in salary and a $950,000 bonus - after it failed and was bailed out in 2009.<ref>[httphttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/11/jack-lew-rubin-citigroup_n_2458142.html Jack Lew's Robert Rubin Connection Is A Bad Sign For Financial Reform,] Mark Gongloff, ''[[Huffington Post]]'', 01/11/2013.</ref> From there Barack Obama re-hired him as Budget Director to replace Orszag, promoted him to Chief of Staff, and later Secretary of the Treasury.<ref>Lew was point man on Obama's [[Budget sequester#2013 Obama sequester|budget sequester]] where he misled the press and public on the origins and nature of the deal.</ref>
===Kyoto Protocols Global warming and the Enron scandal===
:''Main article:'' [[Enron scandal]]
In July 1997, Enron CEO Ken Lay met with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore in the [[Oval Office]]. Enron had begun a pattern of [[soft money]] donations to Democrats and the Clinton White House years earlier. Clinton, Lay, and Gore discussed approval of the [[Kyoto protocol]]s on carbon emissions.<ref>[httphttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/jan/16/20020116-034901-2826r/#ixzz2OnPBZwzl Enron gave cash to Democrats, sought pact help,] ''[[The Washington Times]]'', January 16, 2002.</ref> Clinton asked Lay for his views "in advance of a climate treaty to be negotiated at an international conference." Clinton agreed to support Lay's proposal for a carbon emissions trading exchange<ref>As did Barack Obama. [httphttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/25/obama-years-ago-helped-fund-carbon-program-pushing-congress/ Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress,] By Ed Barnes, March 25, 2009. [[FoxNews]]</ref> which Enron hoped to profit from hugely, while American consumers would pay steep price increases for electricity and natural gas. Enron also asked for and received from Clinton's Export-Import Bank a $300 million loan to build a power plant in India; four days later Enron donated $100,000 to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
The Republican Senate rejected the Kyoto treaty by a 95-to-0 vote on August 15, 1997.
===Cronies take over Freddie Mac===
President Clinton brought [[Rahm Emanuel ]] into the White House in 1993 as part of his original staff, first serving as Assistant to the President for Political Affairs, and then Senior Adviser to the President for Policy and Strategy. 1998 Clinton appointed Emanuel to the Board of the [[government -sponsored entityenterprise]] [[Freddie Mac]].<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122610420534009957.html Emanuel Pick Underscores Balancing Act Ahead in Reshaping Financial Industry], [[Wall Street Journal]]</ref><ref>[httphttps://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6201900&page=1 Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal], [[ABC News]], November 7, 2008.</ref> While on the board during the Clinton administration, Freddie Mac misreported its net income by 30.5 percent, and again in 2001 by 23.9 percent and in 2002 by 42.9 percent, defrauding investors according to the SEC. Freddie Mac's failure is regarded as one of the precipitating events of the [[Financial Crisis of 2008#2008 crises|Financial Crisis of 2008]].
Emanuel later is reported to have sold up to $250,000 of Freddie Mac stock in an insider trading deal only days before the stock dropped by 10 percent — and weeks before it was publicly revealed that the entity was under criminal investigation for inflating earnings.<ref>[httphttps://www.businessinsider.com/book-rahm-emanuel-dumped-tons-of-freddie-mac-stock-days-before-it-collapsed-2011-11#ixzz2MnesKpxI Book: Rahm Emanuel Dumped Tons Of Freddie Mac Stock Days Before It Collapsed]</ref> In 2009 Emanuel became President Obama's Chief of Staff.
=== Foreign Policy ===
Butfoy (2006) argues that in the 1990s the "revolution in military affairs" (RMA), which produced "smart" weapons like cruise missiles, came of age. This apparently transformed how America viewed the relationship between force and international relations. It looked as though technology was framing foreign policy. In particular, smart weapons enabled Clinton to combine risk minimization with an expanded security agenda. However, we should be wary of ascribing technological determinism to the conflicts of the 1990s dominated by Washington's flexing of its strategic superiority, such as its bombing of Belgrade. As shown by comparison with US strategy after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington's stance in the 1990s was shaped by linkages between technology and specific political circumstances. As these circumstances changed, so did the RMA's place in US efforts to shape world order.
===Yugoslav Wars === During his first term as president, Clinton deceived the public into believing that [[Serbia]] was committing genocide in [[Bosnia]].<ref>https://www.wnd.com/2007/05/41373/</ref><ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315650006_The_impact_of_Islam_on_the_Bosnian_problem_The_myth_of_harmonious_multiethnicity_revisited</ref><ref>https://mightynose.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/there-was-no-genocide-in-srebrenica-explains-former-deputy-chief-of-mission-of-un-military-observers-in-bosnia-and-croatia/</ref> During his second term, Bill Clinton launched the [[Kosovo War]] after he falsely accused Serbia of genocide,<ref>http://nobsblog.blogspot.com/1999/01/clinton-wag-dog-no-kosovo-genocide.html</ref><ref name="theguardian.com">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/aug/18/balkans3</ref> as the Clinton State Department claimed that 100,000 Kosovo Albanians were killed or missing, when the causalities was actually 11,000,<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/world/early-count-hints-at-fewer-kosovo-deaths.html</ref> and later 3,000.<ref name="theguardian.com"/> Previously, the Clinton State Department once admitted that the Kosovo Liberation Army is a terrorist organization.<ref>https://apjjf.org/site/make_pdf/3578</ref><ref>https://www.newenglishreview.org/Ares_Demertzis/How_To_Dismember_A_Country/</ref> ===Gives North Korean nukesKorea the nuclear bomb===The first Clinton administgration essentially paid North Korea to build its nuclear weapon provided it would not interfere with Bill Clinton's efforts to win re-election. <ref>https://youtu.be/GE0lCc_FfJs</ref> The Clinton's effectively submitted to blackmail from North Korea.<ref>https://youtu.be/6TcbU5jAavw</ref>
From 1985 to 1992, North Korea "bought time" for its nuclear weapons program by entering into a series of agreements under which it promised to "de-weaponize" its reactors and halt further production of [[plutonium]]. The Clinton administraion forged a deal with [[Kim Il-sung]] during Clinton's first term known as the Agreed Framework signed on 21 October 1994 that North Korea would supposedly halt its nuclear program.<ref>[http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aankorea.htm The North Korean Nuclear Situation]</ref>
Once Clinton won re-election however, North Korea had violated most of the terms of the non-proliferation agreements and withdrew from the rest. By 2000 the money the Clonton administration paid to North Korea amounted to over $61 million. After the Clinton's left office in 2001, and [[Bush administration]] no longer paying the blackmail money in the form of food aid and humanitarian assistanc, North Korea tested it's [[nuclear bomb]] it had built with aid paid by the Clinton administration.
 
===China WTO admission===
:{{See also|China under Deng and successors}}
In 1999, Bill Clinton said in a press conference with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji that bringing China into the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO) “on fair commercial terms” would “go far toward leveling the playing field for [U.S.] companies and [U.S.] workers in China’s markets” and “commit China to play by the rules of the international trading system.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/two-decades-after-joining-china-remains-woefully-short-of-meeting-wto-pledges-report_3938153.html</ref>
=== Al-Qaeda and terrorism ===
The Arab terrorist group [[al-Qaeda]] conducted a World Trade Center bombing in 1993, simultaneous bombings of the US embassies in [[Kenya]] and [[Tanzania]] in 1998, and the attack on the [[USS Cole]] in 2000. Clinton bombed al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan in response, but meanwhile 19 terrorists were plotting an even more ghastly attack on America which took place on September 11, 2001, eight months after Clinton left office.
Former National Security Adviser [[Sandy Berger]] was convicted of theft the National Archives for removing damaging evidence of the Clinton White House negligence in dealing with the threat from [[Osama bin Laden]] and [[Am Al Qaeda]] prior to the [[9/11 attacks]].
===Human Rights===
===Sale of pardons===
====Clinton Foundation contributors====
[[Marc Rich]], who likewise was implicated in the [[BCCI]] scandal,<ref>httphttps://fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/24appendic.htm</ref> and his wife Penny, contributed $450,000 to Bill Clinton's campaigns and were granted last minute pardons for vtiolating U.S. tax laws. Former President Jimmy Carter publicly called it "disgraceful".<ref>httphttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/carter-rich-pardon-disgraceful/</ref> Eric Holder, who later served as Barack Obama's Attorney General, arranged the pardons.<ref>[httphttps://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/16/holder.confirmation/ Former FBI director: Holder was 'used' in Rich pardon], CNN</ref>
====Henry Cisneros====
====Weather Underground====
[[Weather Underground]] [[terrorists]] [[Linda Evans]] and [[Susan Rosenberg ]] also received pardons.<ref>[http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmM1OGM4OGRiNTI5NTIzOTFkMDAwMTJiNGFlYWFiZGI= ''Confirming Fears''], Editorial, [[National Review Online]], November 19, 2008.</ref>
====FALN terrorists====
On August 11, 1999, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the [[Armed Forces of National Liberation]] (FALN) [[terrorist]] group.<ref>[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20070703053819/http://rpc.senate.gov/_files/92199CoddlingTerrorists.pdf U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee] testimony available at httphttps://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/wl91599.htm, ''The Tampa Tribune'', S.J.Res. 33 (passed 95-2).</ref> On January 24, 1975 the FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan killing four people. Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people.<ref>[http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/puertorico/sep4.htm Clinton Pardons Terror], ''[[New York Post]]'', August 13, 1999. retrieve from http://www.latinamericanstudies.org September 14, 2007.</ref> Deputy Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] was credited with with an "unconscionable" effort to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the [[U.S. Department of Justice]]'s pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies.
== Post-Presidency ==
[[File:Bill-clinton-moscow-speech.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Pay day: Bill Clinton in Moscow to pick up a $500,000 bribe for his wife Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's approval of the Russian purchase of Uranium One mining company.]]
After leaving office, Clinton re-indulged the debauched lifestyle his loyal supporters always excused.
 
Clinton has spent much of time since leaving office fundraising for his wife's efforts to rehabilitate his reputation. The Clinton Foundation raised $3 billion dollars to donate to Democratic state parties and Superdelegates for her 2016 presidential bid.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/ 41 Years. $3 Billion. Inside the Clinton Donor Network], By Matea Gold, Tom Hamburger and Anu Narayanswamy, ''Washington Post'', 19 November 2015.</ref><ref>[http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/01/how-hillary-clinton-bought-the-loyalty-of-33-state-democratic-parties/ How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties], by MARGOT KIDDER, April 1, 2016, counterpunch.org .</ref> He also grabbed a few headlines working for charitable causes such as support and fund-raising for the victims of AIDS and the Asian tsunami. In the case of the Indian Ocean tsunami, he teamed with former president [[George H.W. Bush]] to raise money for relief efforts.
Bill Clinton's wife, [[Hillary Rodham Clinton|Hillary Clinton]], was elected Senator to New York in 2000. She was reelected in 2006. Despite winning the [[popular]] vote in primaries for the [[2008 Presidential Election#Declared Democratic Party Candidates|Democratic presidential nomination in 2008]] Barack Obama outbid her in donations to [[Superdelegates]].<ref>[httphttps://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24479611.html Obama leads Clinton in giving money to superdelegates], Rob Hotakainen - McClatchy Newspapers, March 28, 2008.</ref>
Clinton has been criticized by both liberals ===Laureate International Universities===Between 2010 and conservatives 2014 while Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, Bill Clinton made $16.5 million for his actions in his wife's presidential campaign. ''Time'' called him "his wife's attack dog"role as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080130021221/http://media.www.tuftsdailybloomberg.com/mediapolitics/storagearticles/paper8562015-07-31/news/2008/01/28/OpEd/Editorial.On.The.Campaign.Trail.Bill.Clinton.Should.Keep.His.Mouth.Shuthillary-3171498.shtml On the campaign trail, Bill Clinton should keep his mouth shut]and-bill-clinton-paid-43-million-in-federal-taxes</ref> Although he had signed up most black leaders to support Hillary, the great majority of Black voters went for Obama. Clinton was accused of racism by implying that many voters chose The [[ObamaState Department]] for reasons of racefunneled $55 million in grants during Hillary Clinton’s tenure to groups associated with Laureate’s founder. The International Youth Federation, rather than policyan organization connected to Laureate chairman Douglas Becker, saying that he succeeding in some regions for the same reason received [[Jesse JacksonUSAID]] didfunding. Sen<ref>http://www. [[Ted Kennedy]] refused iyfnet.org/people/douglas-l-becker</ref> Becker is a major donor to support the Clintons after Bill Clinton's and the [[racistClinton Foundation]] remarks.<ref name="urbanintellectuals>https://www.washingtonpost.com"/business/laureate-a-for-profit-education-firm-finds-international-success-with-a-clintons-help/2014/01/16/13f8adde-7ca6-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html</ref><ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2016/06/08/the-clintons-university-problem-laureate-education-lawsuits-present-problem-for-clintons/</ref>
After Obama refused to give In her first year as Secretary of State, Hillary is quoted as directly asking that Laureate be included in a high-profile policy dinner — just months before the Vice Presidential nomination, both Clintons fell into line and campaigned for Obamalucrative contract was given to Bill Clinton. Obama easily defeated Senator [[John McCain]], and named Hillary Secretary of StateClinton later references “Laureate Universities, started by Doug Becker who Bill likes a lot". <ref>http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/hillarys-emails-reveal-lucrative-ties-to-for-profit-colleges/</ref>
While Hillary Clinton stumbled on the [[United States ===2016 presidential election, 2016|campaign trail for president in 2016]], ===Clinton surrogates was criticized by both liberals and apologists breathlessly awaited the release of Bill, her conservatives for his actions in his wife's presidential campaign. ''Time'' called him "not-so-secret weaponhis wife's attack dog";.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080130021221/http://abcnewsmedia.gowww.tuftsdaily.com/Politicsmedia/hillary-clinton-unleash-secret-weapon-bill-clinton-januarystorage/story?id=35870901 Hillary paper856/news/2008/01/28/OpEd/Editorial.On.The.Campaign.Trail.Bill.Clinton to Unleash Her 'Not So Secret Weapon'], By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE, ABC News , Dec 20, 2015.Should.Keep.His.Mouth.Shut-3171498.shtml On the campaign trail, Bill Clinton should keep his mouth shut]</ref> as Bill's performance on Although he had signed up most black leaders to support Hillary, the trail faltered rumors abounded that Mrgreat majority of Black voters went for Obama. Clinton was suffering from the early stages accused of racism by implying that many voters chose [[syphilis|syphliticObama]] for reasons of race, rather than policy, saying that he succeeding in some regions for the same reason [[dementiaJesse Jackson]]did.<ref>[https://answers Sen.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110710183312AAgzIbp Yahoo Answer: Does Anyone Know How advanced is [[Ted Kennedy]] refused to support the Clintons after Bill Clinton's syphilis?[[racist], answers] remarks.yahoo<ref name="urbanintellectuals.com<"/ref>
==Laureate International Universities==Between 2010 and 2014 while After Obama refused to give Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of Statethe Vice Presidential nomination, Bill Clinton made $16.5 million for his role as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a both Clintons fell into line and campaigned for-profit college companyObama.<ref>http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-31/hillary-and-bill-clinton-paid-43-million-in-federal-taxes</ref> The Obama easily defeated Senator [[State DepartmentJohn McCain]] funneled $55 million in grants during Hillary Clinton’s tenure to groups associated with Laureate’s founder. The International Youth Federation, an organization connected to Laureate chairman Douglas Becker, received USAID funding.<ref>http://www.iyfnet.org/people/douglas-l-becker</ref> Becker is a major donor to the Clintons and the [[Clinton Foundation]]named Hillary Secretary of State.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/laureate-a-for-profit-education-firm-finds-international-success-with-a-clintons-help/2014/01/16/13f8adde-7ca6-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html</ref><ref>https://jonathanturley.org/2016/06/08/the-clintons-university-problem-laureate-education-lawsuits-present-problem-for-clintons/</ref>
In her first year as Secretary of State, While Hillary is quoted as directly asking that Laureate be included Clinton stumbled on the [[United States presidential election, 2016|campaign trail for president in a high-profile policy dinner — just months before 2016]], Clinton surrogates and apologists breathlessly awaited the lucrative contract was given to release of Bill Clinton, her "not-so-secret weapon";<ref>[https://abcnews. go.com/Politics/hillary-clinton-unleash-secret-weapon-bill-clinton-january/story?id=35870901 Hillary Clinton later references “Laureate Universitiesto Unleash Her 'Not So Secret Weapon'], started by Doug Becker who By MATTHEW CLAIBORNE, ABC News , Dec 20, 2015.</ref> as Bill likes a lot"'s performance on the trail faltered rumors abounded that Mr. Clinton was suffering from the early stages of [[syphilis|syphlitic]] [[dementia]].<ref>http[https://wwwanswers.rawstoryyahoo.com/2016question/03index?qid=20110710183312AAgzIbp Yahoo Answer: Does Anyone Know How advanced is Bill Clinton's syphilis?], answers.yahoo.com</hillarysref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20160819030209/http://christiantimesnewspaper.com/dc-emailscall-revealgirl-lucrativetells-tiesall-toin-fornew-profitbook-colleges/bill-clinton-gave-me-aids</ref>
==Works=2020 presidential election===* ''Between Hope :{{See also|2020 presidential election}}As Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention in support of [[Joe Biden]], allegations by Jane Doe 15 in a lawsuit for damages against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein became public. The suit alleged that “Epstein conveyed to Jane Doe 15 how powerful he was and History''how helpful he could be in assisting Jane Doe 15 with her future goals, 1996* ''My Life''such as paying for college...He made a point of mentioning that he was close with Bill Clinton....Using this overwhelming power he had over Jane Doe 15, 2004* ''Giving: How Each Epstein subjected her to a vicious, prolonged sexual assault.” News of Us Can Change Epstein’s name dropping came shortly after photographs surfaced depicting Clinton with another alleged sex abuse victim. The victim accused Epstein of raping her several times, told the World'', 2007* Daily Mail''Back that the photos were taken in September 2002 after Clinton fell asleep on the Lolita Express on an alleged "humanitarian" trip to WorkAfrica. Clinton was 56 at the time of the photos and victim was 22.<ref>https: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy''//nypost.com/2020/08/20/epstein-used-bill-clintons-name-to-intimidate-15-year-old-accuser/</ref> Documents unsealed in late July 2020 contain statements of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, 2011who told an attorney that the former president visited Epstein’s private island.
==Legacy==
[[File:Clitnon picture in Epstein's mansion.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Oil painting of Bill Clinton displayed prominently in "billionaire socialite" [[Jeffrey Epstein]]'s home.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7353967/Did-Jeffrey-Epstein-portrait-Bill-Clinton-blue-dress-red-heels-NYC-mansion.html</ref>]]Of the $1.6 million Clinton earned in salary<ref>[http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/wjclinton.html William Jefferson Clinton]</ref> as President for 8 years, Clinton agreed to pay $850,000,<ref>[httphttps://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/jones111498.htm Clinton Settles Paula Jones Lawsuit for $850,000], [[Washington Post]]</ref> or more than 53% in a legal settlement with [[Paula Jones]] to satisfy claims for damages to her reputation.
Every President since [[William Howard Taft]] in 1910 has served as Honorary President of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] during his term in office. In 2000 it was reported the Boy Scouts national office revoked the title afforded to Bill Clinton after thousands of complaints. Numerous Eagle Scouts returned their certificates of achievement bearing Clinton's signature and requested a replacement without it.<ref>[httphttps://www.wnd.com/2000/08/474/ Eagle Scouts drop Clinton signature], ''[[WND]], August 24, 2000.</ref>
As with all modern Presidents, members of the Clinton Administration and Clinton's supporters were solicited to fund the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas. This includes a Presidential Library operated by the [[National Archives and Records Administration]], and is the third Presidential Library to comply with the [[Presidential Records Act of 1978]].<ref name="Chicago Tribune 1">{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-7189763_ITM|title=Clinton tries to shape his legacy with presidential library|date=November 18, 2004|last=Zeleny|first=Jeff|publisher=Tribune Company|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|accessdate=October 24, 2016}}</ref> Clinton has also been criticized for the library's lack of coverage regarding various scandals during his presidency, including the Whitewater scandal. The museum's main exhibit designer has said that "this is the way the president wanted to see his legacy defined."<ref name="Chicago Tribune 1"/> The center contains a museum, the offices of the [[Clinton Foundation]], and the [[University of Arkansas]] [[Clinton School of Public Service]]. A museum store is located at the edge of the park in a shopping district.
Fund-raising for the center was led by [[Terry McAuliffe]], a friend of Clinton's who later served as Governor of [[Virginia]]. On January 20, 2001, his last day in office, Clinton pardoned former financier [[Marc Rich]], a fugitive who had been charged with multiple counts of racketeering, wire fraud, income tax evasion, and illegal oil trading. Rich's wife, Denise Eisenberg Rich, was reported to have made three donations totaling nearly $1,000,000 to Clinton's presidential library fund, as well as multiple other contributions to the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's senate campaign. It was later found that she only made three payments totaling $450,000 to the fundraiser. The Senate Judiciary Committee investigated the pardon and issued subpoenas for Denise Rich's bank records because she refused to testify before the House Government Reform Committee, asserting her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Although Clinton had decided to locate the library in Little Rock, Hillary Clinton later decided to run for the Senate from New York State and the couple established legal residency in New York and purchased a home in Chappaqua, New York, in September 1999. After leaving the White House, Bill Clinton established an office in Harlem, New York instead of Little Rock. In October 2021 Clinton was hospitalized for 5 days with a syphilitic urinary tract infection that spread into his bloodstream.<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/politics/bill-clinton-hospitalized/index.html</ref> ==Works==* ''Between Hope and History'', 1996* ''My Life'', 2004* ''Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World'', 2007* ''Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy'', 2011
==See also==
*[[Elite deviance]]
*[[Uranium One bribery scandal]]
*[[Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest]]
*[[Clinton body count]]
*[[Dolly Kyle Browning]]
*[[Honorarium]]
*[[Motor Voter]]
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* Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. ''The Clinton Legacy'' 348 pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58143940 online edition]
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* Felsenthal, Carol. ''Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House‎'' (2008) 386 pages
* Gillon, Steve. '' The pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the rivalry that defined a generation‎'' (2008) 342 pages, by a leading historian; [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=d-U2IzI2r5YC&pg=PA78&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search] * Hamilton, Nigel. ''Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency'' (2007) covers 1993-96, 766pp [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=Ky8fzAmUIvAC&pg=PA203&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]* Harris, John F. ''The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House'' (2005) ISBN 0-375-50847-3, the best coverage of the presidency [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Bill-Clinton-White-House/dp/0375760849/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464409&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Hyland, William G. ''Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy'' (1999) ISBN 0-275-96396-9 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14147621 online edition]
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* Levy, Peter. ''Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency'' (2002), 400pp; 230 well-balanced articles
* Maraniss, David, ''First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton'' (1996) ISBN 0-684-81890-6. Biography to 1991. [httphttps://www.amazon.com/First-His-Class-Biography-Clinton/dp/0684818906/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464484&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Posner, Richard A. ''An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton'' (1999) ISBN 0-674-00080-3 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=77420690 online edition]
* Schantz, Harvey L. ''Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and Governance in the Second Clinton Administration'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102246366 online edition]
* Schier, Steven E. ''The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in U.S. Politics'' (2000) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Presidency-Clintons-Politics-Political/dp/082294135X/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464518&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search] 
===Biographical and Presidential===
* Barber, Benjamin. '' The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House‎'' (2008) 336 pages [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=zwywJroh6PoC&pg=PA11&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]
* Berman, William C. ''From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency'' (2001) 160pp, useful summary and interpretation
* Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. ''The Clinton Legacy'' 348 pp [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58143940 online edition]
* Congressional Quarterly. ''Congress and the Nation 1993-1997: A Review of Government and Politics: 103rd and 104th Congresses'' (1998); ''Congress and the Nation 1997-2001: A Review of Government and Politics: 105th and 106th Congresses'' (2002). Highly detailed nonpartisan coverage (1200 pp each) of all political issues, including presidency
* Gillon, Steve. '' The pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the rivalry that defined a generation‎'' (2008) 342 pages, by a leading historian; [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=d-U2IzI2r5YC&pg=PA78&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]* Hamilton, Nigel. ''Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency'' (2007) covers 1993-96, 766pp [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=Ky8fzAmUIvAC&pg=PA203&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2007&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]* Harris, John F. ''The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House'' (2005) ISBN 0-375-50847-3, the best coverage of the presidency [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Bill-Clinton-White-House/dp/0375760849/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464409&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]* Klein, Joe. ''The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton'' (2003) by leading journalist [http://www.time.com/time/columnist/klein/article/0,9565,490843,00.html online excerpt and search]; [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Natural-Misunderstood-Presidency-Bill-Clinton/dp/0767914120/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464449&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
* Levy, Peter. ''Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency'' (2002), 400pp; 230 well-balanced articles
* Schantz, Harvey L. ''Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and Governance in the Second Clinton Administration'' (2001) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=102246366 online edition]
* Schier, Steven E. ''The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in U.S. Politics'' (2000) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Presidency-Clintons-Politics-Political/dp/082294135X/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464518&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
===Clinton to 1992===
* Borrelli, Stephen A. "Finding the Third Way: Bill Clinton, the DLC, and the Democratic Platform of 1992," ''Journal of Policy History'' Vol. 13#4 (2001), pp.&nbsp;429–462 in Project Muse
* Goldman, Peter L. et al, ''Quest for the Presidency, 1992'' (1994) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=11169230 online edition]
* Maraniss, David, ''First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton'' (1996) ISBN 0-684-81890-6. Biography to 1991. [httphttps://www.amazon.com/First-His-Class-Biography-Clinton/dp/0684818906/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464484&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
===Foreign Policy===
* Jewett, Aubrey W. and Marc D. Turetzky. "Stability and Change in President Clinton's Foreign Policy Beliefs, 1993-96" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 28, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/read/5001392338 online edition]
* Livingston, C. Don, Kenneth A. Wink; "The Passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the U.S. House of Representatives: Presidential Leadership or Presidential Luck?" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 27, 1997 [http://www.questia.com/read/5000429192 online edition]
* Maclean, George A. ''Clinton's Foreign Policy in Russia: From Deterrence and Isolation to Democratization and Engagement'' (2006) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Clintons-Foreign-Policy-Russia-Democratization/dp/0754649016/ref=sr_1_5/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464518&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]
===Domestic Policy===
* Edwards; George C. "Bill Clinton and His Crisis of Governance" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly,'' Vol. 28, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001393468 in Questia]
* Fisher; Patrick. "Clinton's Greatest Legislative Achievement? the Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill" ''White House Studies'', Vol. 1, 2001 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5002437663 in Questia]
* Greenspan, Alan. ''The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World'' (2007), memoir by head of Federal Reserve [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Age-Turbulence-Adventures-New-World/dp/0143114166/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260097183&sr=1-1xcerpt and text search] * Harris, John F. ''The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House''. (2005) covers the major policy issues [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Bill-Clinton-White-House/dp/0375760849/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260097075&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Lanoue, David J. and Craig F. Emmert; "Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton" ''Polity'', Vol. 32, 1999
* Needham, Catherine. "Brand Leaders: Clinton, Blair and the Limitations of the Permanent Campaign." ''Political Studies'' 2005 53(2): 343-361. Issn: 0032-3217 Fulltext: in Ebsco
* Nie; Martin A. "'It's the Environment, Stupid!': Clinton and the Environment" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 27, 1997 [http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=5001516576 online edition]
* Patterson, James T. ''Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore'' (2005) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Restless-Giant-United-Watergate-History/dp/019512216X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195117012&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Poveda; Tony G. "Clinton, Crime, and the Justice Department" ''Social Justice'', Vol. 21, 1994 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5000301618 online edition]
* Renshon; Stanley A. ''The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership'' Westview Press, 1995
* Schantz, Harvey L. ''Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and Governance in the Second Clinton Administration'' (2001) ISBN 0-8153-3583-0
* Stiglitz, Joseph E. ''The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade'' (2004) economic history; [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Roaring-Nineties-History-Worlds-Prosperous/dp/0393326187/ref=sr_1_6/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464518&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
* Wattenberg; Martin P. "The Democrats' Decline in the House during the Clinton Presidency: An Analysis of Partisan Swings" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 29, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/read/5001303783 online edition]
===Polls, campaign, images, character, scandals===
* Blaney, Joseph R. and William L. Benoit. ''The Clinton Scandals and the Politics of Image Restoration,'' (2001) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Scandals-Politics-Restoration-Political-Communication/dp/0275971066/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194471793&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search] [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101159621 online edition]
* Borrelli, Stephen A. "Finding the Third Way: Bill Clinton, the DLC, and the Democratic Platform of 1992," ''Journal of Policy History'' Vol. 13, #4 (2001), pp.&nbsp;429–462 in [[Project Muse]]
* Cohen; Jeffrey E. "The Polls: Change and Stability in Public Assessments of Personal Traits, Bill Clinton, 1993-99" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 31, 2001
* Denton Jr. Robert E. ''The 1996 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective,'' (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=26288597 online edition]
* Denton Jr. Robert E. and Rachel L. Holloway, eds. ''The Clinton Presidency: Images, Issues, and Communication Strategies, 1996 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24374540 online edition]
* Denton Jr. Robert E. and Rachel L. Holloway, eds. ''Images, Scandal, and Communication Strategies of the Clinton Presidency'' (2003) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Scandal-Communication-Strategies-Presidency-Presidential/dp/0275971767/ref=sr_1_4/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464518&sr=8-4 excerpt and text search]
* Glad; Betty. "Evaluating Presidential Character" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly'', Vol. 28, 1998 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001393536 online edition]
* Maurer; Paul J. "Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior during Two Clinton Scandals" ''Presidential Studies Quarterly,'' Vol. 29, 1999 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&se=gglsc&d=5001239881 online edition]
* Fox, Daniel M. "A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance, and: The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security," ''Bulletin of the History of Medicine'' vol. 73, # 2, Summer 1999, pp.&nbsp;367–369 in [[Project Muse]]
* Laham, Nicholas, ''A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance'' (1996) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/a-lost-cause-bill-clintons-campaign-for-national-health-insurance-by-nicholas-laham.jsp online edition]
* Rushefsky, Mark E. and Kant Patel. ''Politics, Power & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s'' (1998) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Politics-Power-Policy-Making-Health/dp/1563249561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260096806&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]* Skocpol, Theda. ''Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn Against Government in U.S. Politics,'' (1996) [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-Health-Reform-Against-Government/dp/039331572X/ref=sr_1_2/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194472221&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
==Primary sources==
* [http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/ERP/ Council of Economic Advisors, ''Economic Report of the President'' (annual 1947- )], complete series online; important analysis of current trends and policies, plus statistical tables
*Clinton, William jfeerson. ''Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton: from Hope to Harlem‎'' ed. by Janis F. Kearney (2006) 402 pages; [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=EVdrKWADFnsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:clinton&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=2006&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]* Starr, Kenneth. ''The Starr Report: The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair'' (1998) ISBN 1-891620-24-X [httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=NxWTTbiij0wC&dq=inauthor:Starr+inauthor:Kenneth&num=30&as_brr=0 excerpt and text search]
===Memoirs===
* Clinton, Bill. ''My Life''. (2004). ISBN 0-375-41457-6. [httphttps://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Bill-Clinton/dp/140003003X/ref=sr_1_8/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194464316&sr=8-8 excerpt and text search]* [[Sidney Blumenthal|Blumenthal, Sidney]]. ''The Clinton Wars''. (2003). ISBN 0-374-12502-3 [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Wars-Sidney-Blumenthal/dp/0374125023/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194472136&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Greenspan, Alan. ''The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World'' (2007), memoir by head of Federal Reserve
* Stephanopoulos, George. ''All Too Human: A Political Education'' (1998) ISBN 0-316-92919-0 [httphttps://www.amazon.com/All-too-Human-George-Stephanopoulos/dp/0316930164/ref=sr_1_1/103-4827826-5463040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194472067&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
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