• Bill Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. His wife and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was campaigned to become the Democratic candidate for President in 2008 against Barack Obama.

  On August 3, 2009, it was reported that Clinton traveled to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American TV journalists sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegally entering the country.http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-clinton-korea4-2009aug04,0,6768809.story?page=1

  On August 4, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued a "special pardon" for the two journalists and ordered their release at Clinton's request.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/north-korea-welcomes-bill_n_250682.html

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: August 19, 1946
  2. U.S. President: 1993-2001
  3. Former Governor of Arkansas
  4. Political Party: Democrat
  5. Wife: Hillary Rodham Clinton
  6. Religion: Baptist
  7. Was a super-delegate for the 2008 Democratic Primary
  8. Third youngest President ever elected, behind Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy

• Early Life and Schooling

  Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe in the small town of Hope, Arkansas, in 1946. His father died in a car accident before he was born, and when he became a teenager, he adopted the surname of his stepfather, Roger Clinton. A highly intelligent student, Clinton went on to attend Georgetown University, received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied at the University of Oxford in England in 1968, and received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1973.

• Political Career

  In the 1960s, Clinton protested the Vietnam War, and in 1972 he became involved with the political campaign of Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern in Texas. In 1978, Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas at the age of 32.

• Presidency

  In 1992, Clinton beat incumbent President George H. W. Bush and billionaire Ross Perot to become the 42nd President of the United States. He was re-elected in 1996, defeating Senator Bob Dole. In the 1994 Congressional Elections, the Republicans captured both houses of Congress by promising a "Contract with America" and Clinton's ambitious domestic program for the nation suffered a setback. In 1998, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives impeached Clinton for lying under oath regarding an alleged affair with Paula Jones. However, the Senate fell short of the two-thirds of majority necessary to convict the President.

• John Roberts Interview

  In an interview with CNN's John Roberts, Clinton admitted that he didn't do enough to keep the derivitives market in check during his presidency stating, "I think that the only thing that our administration did or didn't do that we should have done is to try to set in motion some more formal regulation of the derivatives market."CNN.com: Bill Clinton: I should have...(February 16, 2009)

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