Which US President was born William Jefferson Blythe IV?

Answer 1

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946. He was born three months after his father, an automobile-parts salesman, was killed in an automobile accident. He was left with his grandparents while his mother Virginia Cassidy went back to school to become a nurse-anesthetist. In his first years of life Clinton spent a great deal of time in his grandfather's grocery store, in a racially mixed neighborhood. In 1950 when he was four years old, his mother wed an automobile dealer Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas.and he was officially adopted by his step-father, and assumed his name when he was in high school, right after the remarriage of his mother and step father who had divorced. It is where he grew up in comfortable middle class environment with his younger half brother, Roger, Jr. Unfortunately his step-father was an alcoholic who was prone to violence.

Clinton was an super-achiever in school, and participated in many extra-curricula activities. He was an excellent student and a talented saxophonist who considered dedicating his life to music.He was a member of Youth Order of DeMolay. In 1963 he was sent as the Arkansas representative to Boy's Nation a leadership training program in Washington. There he visited the White House and shook hands with President Kennedy. Clinton claims from that moment on, he decided on a career in politics. He began college at Georgetown University in Washington DC in 1964 . While studying , he worked part-time for Senator Fulbright of Arkansas. On graduating in 1968 with a degree in International Relations then received a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to study in Oxford England. He received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree.

Upon his return to the United States Carter entered Yale University Law school, where he received a law degree in 1973. It is where he met his wife Hillary Rodham, who he wed in 1975.

After graduating from Yale, Clinton returned to Arkansas, where he briefly taught law at the University of Arkansas. In 1974 at the age of 28 Clinton ran for Congressman. He lost but managed to obtain 48.5% of the vote. In 1976 Clinton ran successfully for the position of state attorney general. In 1978 he beat four other contenders, to become the democratic candidate for governor of Arkansas. In 1979 he assumed the post, thus becoming the nation's youngest governor since 1938.

After two turbulent years in office Clinton was defeated in 1980 when he ran for reelection. Two years later he succeeded in returning to the governors mansion in Little Rock. He remained as governor for the seceding ten years. During his tenure as governor, he emphasized education reform in Arkansas.

President Clinton's early Presidency was been a complete reversal of the Bush Presidency. Clinton embarked on a number of major domestic initiatives. Foremost among them was health care reform. Those reforms failed to pass Congress, with the failure of his health care program his biggest defeat. He did manage to significantly narrow the budget deficit by a combination of spending cutbacks and an increase in taxes. By the end the Clinton Presidency these actions clearly had succeeded as the Federal budget moved from deficit to surplus for the the first time in a generation.

The election of a Republican Congress in 1994 forced Clinton to abandon his domestic proposals and limit his action to modifying Republican initiatives.

Clinton had been elected on a clear platform of making domestic affairs first on his agenda. The first two years of his Presidency reflected those priorities. His actions in foreign affairs were limited to promoting additional aid to Russia and the Baltic republics as well as insuring the passage of the North American Free Trade Zone. He placed greater emphasis on the economic aspects of foreign affairs. His administration played a minor roll in helping Israel and the PLO reach an agreement.

In the third year of the administration it became more heavily involved in foreign affairs. It led a UN invention in Haiti that returned civilian leadership. After two years of allowing the European powers to set the agenda on the War in Bosnia, the US government became actively involved in reaching an accord between the warring factions. That accord was reached under heavy American pressure in Dayton Ohio. The Clinton administration then led NATO in supplying troops to enforce the peace.

Clinton won reelection in 1996 on a platform that stressed his bridge to the 21st century. In 1998 he was impeached by the House of Representatives on the basis of his testimony in the Paul Jones sexual harassment suite. He was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president. He was acquitted by the Senate in early 1999. He led the US intervention in Kosovo. That intervention which took the from of an air attack on Serbia. The result was a pull out of Serb troop in Kosovo.

This 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 got a daughter Chelsea born in 1980. Clinton is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc. He became first Baby Boomer president and was the first president in a half century not shaped by World War II.

Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in 1998 called Clinton "the first Black president," saying "Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas".

Clinton remain immensely popular these days, has been active in humanitarian works and has been receiving various honors and awards.☺
(I am giving his biography and it seems that I cannot stop adding more inputs about Bill Clinton, I admired him so much but I need to stop in here.)

Answer 2

William Jefferson Clinton

Answer 3

Bill Clinton.

Answer 4

Bill Clinton.