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Title: Bill Clinton View count: 79 Rating: 5.0 (3 ratings) Description: BBC's The Daily Politics profiles Bill Clinton for the "My Favourite President" poll, with Tony Blair's Chief of Staff Jonathan Powell and Dominic West. Bill Clinton was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and actually achieved a budget surplus. But a huge programme of health care reform failed. In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding his "relationship" with Monica Lewinsky, a young White House intern, Clinton became the second US president to be impeached by the House of Representatives (Andrew Johnson was acquitted in 1868). He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges, and he left office with the highest outgoing approval rating (65%) of any president since WWII. Tags: bill, clinton, profile, us, president, united, states, Author: Potsdamerplatz |
