what are bill clintons road to presidency highlights?

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Answer 1

Bill Clinton, when he was elected, was the third youngest person to hold the office of President, and the second-youngest elected (Teddy Roosevelt, the youngest, succeeded after McKinley's assassination. The youngest elected, second youngest to hold, was Kennedy.)

Younger Presidents can sometimes appeal to the American public], especially since he was elected to replace the older George H.W. Bush. Clinton has a distinguished carrer for his age, he'd been elected governor of Arkansas 5 times before running for President.

Answer 2

1. Lived off taxpayers his whole life.
2. Protested against USA while in Britain.
3. Slipped into Soviet Union somehow.
4. Dodged the Draft.
5. When running for Governor, swore oath to God that he wouldn't run for president. Then betrayed both God and the voters, and ran for president.
6. Involved in many corrupted endeavors while Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas.

Answer 3

Non-existent.

Answer 4

Do a Yahoo Or Google Search on him and you'll get better results on this subject!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

BILL CLINTON WAS A HORRIBLE PRESIDENT, that is it

Answer 6

Let’s just look at Clinton’s record on terrorism.

Clinton vs. Terror, Republicans vs. Clinton
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President Clinton led the fight against terrorism over strong opposition from Republicans in Congress and the pro-Republican Media. Here's a partial - yet incredibly long - list of accomplishments against terrorism for which the Clinton Administration gets almost no credit or even recognition. President Clinton:

-- sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.

-- sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.

-- sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.

When Republicans couldn't prevent executive action, President Clinton:

-- Developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.

--Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.

-- Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.

-- Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).

-- Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.

-- Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively -- and successfully -- to stop future terrorist attacks.

-- Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.

-- Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.

-- Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries

-- Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.

-- Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton's efforts "Overall, I give them very high marks" and "The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama"

-- Paul Bremer, Bush's Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had "correctly focused on bin Laden. "

-- Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, "By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him" and was the "first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort."

http://www.mikehersh.com/printer_Clinton_vs_Terro [...]


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Republicans vs. Clinton

Here, in stark contrast, is part of the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record before September 11, 2001:

-- Backed off Clinton administration's anti-terrorism efforts.

-- Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.

-- Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.

-- Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.

-- Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.

-- Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.

-- Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.

-- Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.

-- Bush - knowing about the terrorists' plans to attack in America, warned that terrorists were in flight schools in the US - took a four week vacation.

-- By failing to order any coordination of intelligence data, missed opportunity to stop the 9/11 plot as Clinton-Gore had stopped the millennium plots.

-- Blamed President Clinton for 9/11.

http://www.mikehersh.com/printer_Clinton_vs_Terro [...]


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Bill Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Measures

http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/pearly/htmls/bill-te [...]


Former president offers approach for terrorism fight

http://www.angelfire.com/indie/pearly/htmls/bill-terror1.html


Clinton proposes huge police buildup

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/terr-j26.shtml


1996 In Review: U.S. Fought Terrorism At Home And Abroad

http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/1996/12/F.RU.961230164413.html


The Covert Hunt for bin Laden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A62725-2001Dec18


Backgrounder On Clinton No.1 Priority On Terrorism at G-7 Summit

http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/pas/bkgr/gs/960627.htm


Bill Clinton Terror Rumor Debunked

http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/clinton.htm


Clinton at UN focuses on Terrorism

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980922/1998092255.html


Clinton Urges Anti-terrorism Action

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/august96/clintonspeech_8-6.html


Clinton seeks $1 billion to fight terrorism

http://www.cnn.com/US/9609/09/clinton.aviation/index.html


House approves $29 billion anti-terror bill

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/05/24/gen.house.terror.ap/


Clinton Seeks Anti-Terrorism Aid

http://infomanage.com/nonproliferation/news/1999/rnmpwh1s.htm


Clinton signs airport security measures into law

http://www.cnn.com/US/9610/09/faa/index.html


Clinton Targets Terrorism

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/clinton_terrorists990122.html


Clinton's Letter to Congress on Freezing of bin Ladin Assets

http://www.ict.org.il/documents/documentdet.cfm?docid=22


Combatting Terrorism

http://www.info-sec.com/ciao/62factsheet.html


Former envoys : Clinton gave Taliban evidence on bin Laden

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/06/gen.clinton.taliban/index.html


President Clinton's Speech on Terrorist Attacks

http://www.cnsnews.com/InDepth/archive/199808/IND19980820o.html


President Swears to Use 'All Tools' Against Terrorism

http://www.ishipress.com/attackrd.htm


U.S. Froze $254 Million In Taliban Cash in 1999

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A52702-2001Oct12


White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security: The DOT Status Report

http://www.dot.gov/affairs/whcexec.htm


White House Fact Sheet on Counter-terrorism Measures

http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/WH_fact_sheet_10_96.html


Don't blame it on Bill Clinton

http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/10/18/column.billpress/index.html


Clinton's Compartments

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A22624-2001Dec24


The Usual Suspect

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/10/fritz-b-10-29.html


Clinton Backs Cyber-Terror Warnings

http://www.terrorism.com/homeland/prez-init.htm


1996 Anti-terrorism Act

http://www.facts.com/cd/i00010.htm#I00011_e


Clinton backs tech war on terror

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1912000/1912895.stm

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Republicans Watered Down 1996 Clinton Anti-Terrorism Bill, Thanks to Lott & Hatch

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/sstewert/News/clintonbill.html

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An Excuse-Spouting Bush Is Busted by 9/11 Report

As early as May 2001, the FBI was receiving tips that Bin Laden supporters were planning attacks in the U.S., possibly including the hijacking of planes. On May 29, White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke wrote national security advisor Condoleezza Rice that when these attacks [on Israeli or U.S. facilities] occur, as they likely will, we will wonder what more we could have done to stop them. At the end of June, the commission wrote, "the intelligence reporting consistently described the upcoming attacks as occurring on a calamitous level."

In early July, Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft was told "that preparations for multiple attacks [by Al Qaeda] were in late stages or already complete and that little additional warning could be expected." By month's end, "the system was blinking red" and could not "get any worse," then-CIA Director George Tenet told the 9/11 commission.

It was at this point, of course, that George W. Bush began the longest presidential vacation in 32 years. On the very first day of his visit to his Texas ranch, Aug. 6, Bush received the now-infamous two-page intelligence alert titled, Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States. Yet instead of returning to the capital to mobilize an energetic defensive posture, he spent an additional 27 days away as the government languished in summer mode, in deep denial.

"In sum," said the 9/11 commission report, "the domestic agencies never mobilized in response to the threat..."
http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerr [...]

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If only Bush HAD DONE NOTHING, but he actually made the situation worse.

Soon after inauguration, Bush quietly ended the Cole investigation and withdrew the team of over 100 FBI and JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) agents that Clinton had sent to Yemen to investigate the Cole bombing.

Then, in March of 2001, when the task force sent the White House their final report, which implicated bin Laden and named al Qaeda operative Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as the architect of the bombing, Bush and Rice simply shelved the report and took no action against al Qaeda. Mohammed went on to be the chief architect of the 9/11 attacks.

Later, after Mohammed was captured in Pakistan, he told his American interrogators that it was specifically Bush's failure to follow through with the Cole investigation - and particularly his failure to come after Mohammed - that convinced him that al Qaeda could mount the 9/11 attacks and get away with them.

It will always be a moot question whether White House diligence and attention could have prevented the 9/11 attacks, but it is a given that failure to act against the Cole bombers and failure to heed the multiple warnings about future attacks simply opened our doors wide to attack and made bin Laden's task simple.