What was President Bill Cliton's life lkie?

Clinton has said that his decision to enter the field of politics came after an audience with President John F. Kennedy at the White House at age 16. He went on to graduate from Georgetown University and win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, then earned a law degree from Yale. In 1974, the Arkansas native ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the Democratic primary. The following year, he married Hillary Rodham, a classmate at Yale Law School, and was elected attorney general of Arkansas. In 1978, at age 32, he became governor, making him the youngest person to hold that office in more than 100 years. After losing his bid for reelection in 1980, he returned to office in 1982 and easily won three successive four-year terms. At the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Clinton secured the party’s presidential nomination. He went on to defeat the incumbent president, George H.W. Bush, and third-party candidate Ross Perot in the general election.

The first two years of Clinton’s first term were beset with problems, which included ethics investigations into his Whitewater real estate dealings in Arkansas and an acrimonious congressional debate over his plan for universal health care. In the 1994 midterm elections, the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress for the first time since the 1950s, and Clinton’s first term was known thereafter as a period of divided government. Despite this split, Clinton presided over a robust economy during his second term that produced unbalanced budgets and even budget surpluses, and, as a result, he became the first Democratic president to win reelection in 20 years (and the first to lead the Democratic ticket to a second consecutive victory since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936). During his second term Clinton pursued deficit reduction and other centrist policies that alienated many core Democrats while pleasing some Republicans, and in so doing he arguably contributed to the Republican victory in the 1998 midterm elections. Clinton’s reelection and the robust economy helped the party to avoid the so-called midterm blues, and this outcome, in turn, was thought to have hurt Clinton’s standing among congressional Republicans.

In 1998 a story broke concerning allegations of a sexual relationship between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern. On the basis of testimony he had provided during an independent counsel’s (Ken Starr’s) investigation of the relationship, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. On February 12, 1999, he became the second U.S. president (after Andrew Johnson) to be impeached by the House of Representatives, and he was tried in the Senate from January 14 until February 12, 1999. He was acquitted of the charges on February 12, 1999.

Throughout the impeachment trial, Clinton’s domestic approval ratings remained above 65 percent, and he retained much of his popularity with American voters because of the strong economy. On the world stage, Clinton enjoyed much success with his foreign policy, including his peace initiative in Northern Ireland and his efforts to resolve the long-standing hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians. He also ordered the bombing of Iraq after the Iraqi government had refused to readmit United Nations weapons inspectors, and he ordered bombing raids in Bosnia and Herzegovina in an effort to end the civil war raging there. Clinton was the first president to visit Ireland while in office, and he also became the first U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson to make a state visit to Vietnam (in 2000). In 2009, shortly after Barack Obama’s presidency began, Clinton was named a special envoy to the Haiti earthquake.

After leaving office in 2001, Clinton remained active in global affairs. In 2005 he was appointed a UN special envoy for tsunami recovery. The William J. Clinton Foundation, established in 2001 as a means to continue the work begun during his presidency on a variety of domestic and international issues, expanded its efforts, focusing especially on relief efforts in countries such as Haiti and on combating HIV/AIDS in Africa. In 2010 the foundation launched the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization based in New York City that hosts meetings of global leaders and other interested participants to promote solutions to major world challenges. Clinton was also an avid public speaker in the United States and throughout the world.

Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York in 2000, the first U.S. first lady to win elective office. She ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and served as U.S. secretary of state in Obama’s administration (2009–13), but she also launched her own presidential campaign in 2016.