The 43 Presidents
of the
United States of America

Bill Clinton

42nd President
1993 - 2001

Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States.

Important events during President Clinton's administration were:

• President Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to work on health care reform on February 4, 1993.

• President Clinton signed the family-leave bill on February 5, 1993.

• The World Trade Center in New York City was bombed on February 26, 1993.  It was the largest bombing in United States history and blew a 100-foot crater in the basement.

• United States planes began an airlift of humanitarian aid supplies to Bosnia on February 28, 1993.

• A program was created on February 28, 1993 that allowed college students to replay college loans by working in community service after graduation.

• Mohammed Salameh was arrested in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 4, 1993 for the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in February 1993.

• President Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in November 1993.

• A bomb hidden in a rented van exploded outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on April 19, 1995.  Most of the building is damaged and 168 people are killed.

• Major tobacco companies settle with 46 states on November 23, 1998 for $206 billion.  The states had sued them for money they spent treating smoking-related diseases

• Two students armed with automatic rifles and explosives killed twelve students and a teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999.

• The U.S. Human Genome Project and Celera Genomics announced June 26, 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequences had been created that make up the human DNA.

• The USS Cole was attacked in Aden, Yemen, on October 12, 2000 and seventeen U.S. soldiers were killed.

Bill Clinton was:

• the first President to be born in Arkansas.

• the first President who was a Rhodes Scholar.

• the first President to have worked as a Senate staffer in his college years.

• the first President to play the saxophone.

• the third President to host a major conference of economic advisors before taking office.

• the first President born after World War II.

• the twenty-sixth President to have been an attorney.

• the sixteenth President to have served as a state governor.

• the sixteenth President who did not win the majority of the popular vote.

• the first Democratic President elected who did not win the State of Texas.

• the second President to be given the keys to the doors of the Capitol.