CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 MEET THE CLINTONS 7 CHAPTER 2 LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD 16 CHAPTER 3 FOUR MORE YEARs 25 CHAPTER 4 BEYOND THE WHITE 34 HOUSE TIMELINE OF 43 ACHIEVEMENTS OTHER LEADERS 44 WHO HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE GLOSSARY 46 47 FOR MORE INFORMATION INDEX 48
IN T R OD President Bill Clinton and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton have taken turns supporting each other as they ran for different political
A J CTION I n 1992 the world was changing in major ways The Cold War the period of tension that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union was coming to an end Now that the Soviet Union was broken up into several smaller nations the United States remained as the only superpower in the world In addition to this global transformation important changes were also taking place in Is the United States The Republican Party had won every presidential election since 1976 This streak ended when a Democrat won in 1992 Governor William Jefferson Bill Clinton of Arkansas was elected the forty second president of the United States A popular president Clinton oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion President Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton became household names Unlike many First Ladies before her Hillary Clinton took an active role in politics While UYETT