什麼是柯林頓

Clinton, William Jefferson，原名William Jefferson Blythe III。

美國第四十二任總統（1993～2001）。出生之前父親因車禍喪生，後來母親改嫁，爲繼父羅傑.柯林頓所收養。他曾就讀於喬治城大學、哈佛大學和耶魯大學法學院，後來在阿肯色大學法學院教書。1976年他被選爲阿肯色州總檢察長，1978年當選州長，1982年再次當選。擔任州長期間，改革該州的教育制度和透過優惠稅收政策鼓勵在該州投資工業。1992年通過被控行爲不檢的考驗後，贏得民主黨總統候選人的提名，並打敗現任總統布希。主政期間，在1993年促使國會通過「北美自由貿易協定」。他和妻子希拉蕊一致強烈鼓吹改革美國醫療體系的計畫，但遭國會否決。在波士尼亞赫塞哥維納危機剛開始時，他派美國軍隊去維持和平。1994年民主黨人第一次失去對國會的控制（自1954年以來）。當有人努力阻隢政府把精力花費在社會改革時，柯林頓以減少赤字計畫來作迴應。1996年總統大選時，打敗杜爾而得以連任。他居間調停北愛爾蘭及中東的和平。1998年在企圖隱瞞他與白宮實習生的婚外情而被指控做僞證和妨礙司法後，成爲第二位遭到彈劾的美國總統，1999年被參議院宣告無罪。在職期間歷經了美國最長的經濟擴張和平時期。

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Clinton, William Jefferson

42nd president of the U.S. (1993-2001). Born in Hope, Arkansas, soon after his father's death in a car crash, he later took the last name of his mother's second husband, Roger Clinton. He attended Georgetown University, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale law school, then taught at the University of Arkansas law school. He served as state attorney general (1977-79) and served several terms as governor (1979-81, 1983-92), during which he reformed Arkansas's educational system and encouraged the growth of industry through favorable tax policies. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992 after withstanding charges of personal impropriety and defeated the incumbent, George Bush. As president, Clinton obtained approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. He and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, strongly advocated their plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, but Congress rejected it. He committed U.S. forces to a peacekeeping initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1994 the Democrats lost control of Congress for the first time since 1954. Clinton responded by offering a deficit-reduction plan while opposing efforts to slow government spending on social programs. He defeated Robert Dole to win reelection in 1996. In 1997 he helped broker a peace agreement in Northern Ireland. He faced renewed charges of personal impropriety, this time involving Monica Lewinsky; he denied the charges before a grand jury, but ultimately acknowledged “improper relations” in a televised address. In 1998 Clinton became the second president in history to be impeached. Charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, he was acquitted at his Senate trial in 1999. His two terms saw sustained economic growth and successive budget surpluses, the first in three decades.