Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton - 42nd President of the United States
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) served as the forty-second President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, only older than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, he is known as the first Baby Boomer president.
Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a reported federal surplus. Based on Congressional accounting rules, at the end of his presidency Clinton reported a surplus of $559 billion. On the heels of a failed attempt at health care reform with a Democratic Congress, Republicans won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years. Two years later, he was re-elected and became the first member of the Democratic Party since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term as President.
Since leaving office, Bill Clinton has been involved in public speaking and humanitarian work. His public speaking promotes and addresses international causes, such as treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and global warming.
Recently he has been involved in his wife Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign and in that of Barack Obama.
An avid runner and passionate about playing the saxophone, former President Clinton never appeared to let his asthma prevent him from partaking in key political or leisure activities.
Yet another example of a Life Without Limits!
