Bill Clinton

"There is nothing wrong with America that can not be cured by all that is right with America."

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Attribution: First Inaugural Address

Date: Jan. 21, 1993

William Jefferson Clinton

1946–

42d President of the United States (1993–2001). Born in Hope, AK. After graduating from Georgetown University (1968), attending Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar (1968–70), and receiving a law degree from Yale University (1973), Clinton returned to his home state, where he was a lawyer and (1974–76) law professor. In 1978 he won the Arkansas governorship, becoming the nation’s youngest governor. In 1992 Clinton won the presidential elections defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush and independent candidate H. Ross Perot.