... social websites describe Clinton to be tenacious and devoted; these words truly do describe this woman and the effort she puts forth to get things done in America. Hillary Clinton has not only held a First Lady title for two terms next to her husband and former president Bill Clinton, but also ... served as the secretary of state for current president Barack Obama. Tenacious as they come, Clinton has put aside the well known fits in her personal and private life to push for ... for women is good for America. As far as I'm concerned, any issue that affects women's lives and futures is a...

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... to abuse certain privileges that come with living in America, but history has proven that this is not true. (Hoehn, Richard, 1995) Former President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill, he said "Today, we are taking a historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be: a second chance, not a way of ... the mail, so where is the motivation for going out and getting a job? There is not one. That is why former President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill. He knew that the welfare laws need to be refined. Many people are abusing welfare in more ways than one. The most common ......

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... facedown on the pavement shortly after the incident began. Again this man was unarmed. This issue has also been addressed by President Clinton. On June 9, 1999, he ordered federal law enforcement officials to collect data on the the race and gender of the people they stop ... conduct outreach programs. SB 44 had bipartisan support and was previously endorsed by former Attorney General Dan Lungren. Governor Davis vetoed the bill claiming that outreach toward minorities and women would violate Proposition 209, a position contrary to recent court decisions. Davis also vetoes what ... 78...

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... is going through a civil war? The fact that the public thought what was going on in Rwanda was a civil war is because the Clinton administration refused to call it genocide even though the administration had documented reports stating it was. If the public knew that genocide was happening then ... Rwanda it were Kosovo would that make America act and not worry about votes. America's inaction in Rwanda is incomprehensible. How Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton live with themselves? What was to gain from sitting back and doing nothing? If America wants to be the last superpower then it s...

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... press secretary James Brady. Had today's background check been in operation then, along with a five-day waiting period (as provided for in the original Brady bill language), it could have been determined that Hinckley had lied on the form, and the sale would have been denied. (US Government Information) Background checks will ... good, and is cleaned. Despite the endorsement of four former presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan) and the active support of President Clinton, it took seven years for the Brady Bill to become law. And due to the gun lobby's efforts, one of the most impor...

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... are entitled to advantages today: it's your turn to pay" (Diggins 457). According to an article by The Americans United for Affirmative Action (AUAA), Bill Clinton said, "Based on evidence, the job of ending discrimination in this country is not over. We should reaffirm the principle of affirmative action and fix the ... effective in raising black employment in firms, and particularly in raising the number of blacks in skilled and white-collar occupations" (Diggins 377). Bill Clinton has no doubt affirmative action has worked, but since there is still discrimination there should still b...

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... studies have shown that aggressiveness increases immediately after viewing a violent show. " Kids steeped in a culture of violence do become desensitized to it and more capable of committing it themselves" (President Bill Clinton). More than that, because violence is depicted as an effective tool, viewers may feel it will be a useful instrument for achieving their goals. " One can value the First Amendment right ... to speech and at the same time care for and act with restraint"(President Bill Clinton). As this topic has become a more popular controversy, the government has become more ...

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... one pie to copy. So to the whole world america outward image is the land of the free, everybody got a chance to be let's say the next Tom cruise or Bill gates, okay who would you rather be. That has to be some great pie. But look at who is their cook. Mr.Bush. now that's some wacky cooking. Michael Moore ... stand. Let's all vote for the democrats. But then he turnes it around with a segment about the man previusly known as the president of america, Mr. Bill Clinton. Before reading this book you could say I was somewhat of a Clinton fan, not so much anymore. The list of things he did in...

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... people who have learned to abuse certain privileges that come with living in America, but history has proven that this is not true. Former President, Bill Clinton signed the welfare reform bill, he said "Today, we are taking a historic chance to make welfare what it was meant to be: a second chance, not a way of ... come in the mail, so where's the motivation for going out and getting a job? There is not one. That is why President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill. He knows that the welfare laws need to be refined, and he has chosen himself as the apostle for this chore. Many people...

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... of funds, the government did not exercise direct control over the academic programs schools offered or over decisions about academic issues. During the 1990s, the administration of president Bill Clinton urged the federal government to move further in exercising leadership by establishing academic standards for public schools across the country and to evaluate schools through testing. Concerns in ... had earned at least a bachelor's degree. Expanding access to college education is an important priority for the U.S. government. In his 1997 State of the Union address U.S. president Bill Cl...

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... for equal rights during Reconstruction, the 12-year period after the Civil War. In 1868, after southern president Andrew Johnson vetoed a Civil Rights bill, the radically republican influenced congress transported the principals of the Civil Rights bill to the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment conferred civil rights and citizenship for all former slaves, and was incorporated into the requirements for a southern ... "(Source 6 35741). Reagan hoped that the tax cut would "encourage savings, stimulate investment, generate productivity, and accelerate real economic growth"(Roberts 22). After...

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... and the Voting Rights Act. Both of these men worked together to end segregation in a lot of southern states. Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States in 1992. Clinton worked on a promise for the hard-working forgotten families. It was after twelve years of Republican presidents that America ... faced record budget deficits, high unemployment, and increasing crime. During Clinton's term it was the time of the most peace in history and the longest expansion of the economy. There was a Clinton/Gore administration that was responsible for unemployment to its lowest le...

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... past five to ten years. According to Terry Teachout, "the actual content of rap, nobody talks about it much anymore-it seems far, far longer then seven years ago that Bill Clinton made political hay by attacking Sister Souljah-and it may well be that the sickening excesses of gangster rap have become as untrendy as Austin Power's wardrobe" (14). We need ... past five to ten years. According to Terry Teachout, "the actual content of rap, nobody talks about it much anymore-it seems far, far longer then seven years ago that Bill Clinton made political hay by attacking Sister Souljah-and it...

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... by the Cuban Marxist. This Invasion of Granada took president in the news and made the President a hero, not someone who failed when he re-deployed troops into Beirut. President Bill Clinton did the same type of thing in 1998 when he ordered air strikes on Al Quida camps in Sudan. He ordered the strikes the same day that he was ordered ... in politics that if anyone could learn to deceive and control it they could do almost whatever they wanted. When the case about Monica Lewinski came out into the public Bill Clinton said, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Because of t...

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... article, which they stole from her obituary. What kind of image does that present to the audience? Stories are often over-dramatized; for example the New York City Tabloid featured Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro about to shake hands, and the obscenely big headline screaming " All Shook Up." The photograph was a composite of two different photos. Also, in 1994 the New York ... photos are merely a way of dramatizing the events. It is wrong to alter the content of a photograph in any way that deceives the public. In conclusion, my best friend's murder, Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro, and Ton...

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... for the constitution, for freedom; and many other battles have been fought over personal freedoms and liberties. If the current trend continues thousands may have died in vain. A bill in 1994, signed by president Clinton, banned the sale of some semi-automatic weapons. In my opinion all he succeeded in doing was to start a gun-revolution, and became a president who contradicted the ... Washington, D.C. should be the safest cities in our nation. Why, do they have gun control laws? Are more gun control laws really the right answer? It all starts with one bill, an action against gun owners...

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... and was ignored by the Republicans in the White House and in Congress (Artze, p.39). Affirmative action was silently being terminated by our federal administrators. Finally during the Presidency of Bill Clinton, he promised a cabinet that "resembled America". By this he meant, that his cabinet will be chosen on account of their race and/or sex (Bergmann, 1). The Republicans attempted to ... say that affirmative action is a quota or reverse discrimination. However, President Clinton supported affirmative action and he clearly stated that he is against quotas and reverse discrimination: "...

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... , unemployment was down and job growth was up. The perfect combination. He set the stage for great things to come. Bill Clinton was perhaps the most talked about president ever. From his pot smoking days, to his affairs with Monica and Paula, Clinton had some serious escapades. Yet through all of the controversy, he managed to pull us through a massive terrorist attack on ... Oklahoma City, WTO riots and the WTC bombing. Wise decisions were made such as the rescue missions to Bosnia and Somalia. Yes, president Clinton was a good president, yet congress decided, for only the second time e...

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The Sexual Revolution In 1998, President Bill Clinton's confession that he had had an inappropriate relationship of a sexual nature with White House intern Monica Lewinsky started a national discussion about how a politician's personal moral standards might affect his or her ability to lead. Clinton's indiscretions also sparked public debate about sexual ethics in the United States. Some observers lament that Americans have largely abandoned conventional ... sexual values that discourage casual sex, premarital sex, promiscuity, and adultery. However, Clinton's promiscuity was lightly overlook...

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... for Handgun Control, Inc., known today as the Brady Campaign to prevent Gun Violence. President Reagan supported the Bill, but it wasn't until the early days of Bill Clinton that the bill was finally passed, requiring background checks for every gun purchase. The passage of the Brady Bill marked the start of the gun control lobby's greatest hour in the nation's capital - and gun rights ... ...

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... , but by mutual distrust (Meeks 24). Police officials continue to deny their personnel practice racial profiling on routine stops. Political opposition to the practice of racial profiling is mounting, President Clinton has it "morally indefensible" and has ordered federal law enforcement officials to collect 8 information on the race and sex of people they stop. Vice President Al Gore has promised to ... . At the same time, reactionary politicians and police officials both oppose any attempt to document which persons actually get stopped and why. For example, California's former Governor ...

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... of public safety, this was not the concern of lawmakers at the time of the law's enactment. In fact, public safety did not even enter the original debate on the bill (Peters, 1995). The law was given a temporary status initially, to be a one-year fix for a problem presumed to be solved by diplomacy. As is so often with federal initiatives, the ... blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.02% for any driver under the age of 21, and there were also many funding provisions thrown in. President Bill Clinton did not like this one bit but for other reasons signed the bill. Voicing the president's con...

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... Rights says, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." (Bill of Rights) Lately it seems every politician and their mothers have made arguments that gun control is a necessary thing. Gun control is a touchy issue with most Americans, either you are ... cant get to it. If you take a look at the studies the gun control supporters use to back up their point of view, they have doctored the facts a bet. President Bill Clinton campaigned for so-called "triggerlock" and "smart" gun laws, c...

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... Limbaugh provided was inaccurate. For example on June 27, 1993 Limbaugh played a tape from June 21, 1993 in which Secretary Lloyd Benson stated that the new Clinton budget plan would bring the stock market down. "A proud Limbaugh failed to recognize that on June 27, 1993 the Stock Market, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ index ... the "94 elections in which the newly elected Congressional majority was Republican. Before the "94 election, members of Congress feared Limbaugh's power. "In the Senate, a bill referred to as the "Hush Rush" was designed to silence him, although it did not pass" (Corry 50...

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... Limbaugh provided was inaccurate. For example on June 27, 1993 Limbaugh played a tape from June 21, 1993 in which Secretary Lloyd Benson stated that the new Clinton budget plan would bring the stock market down. "A proud Limbaugh failed to recognize that on June 27, 1993 the Stock Market, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ index ... "94 elections in which the newly elected Congressional majority was Republican. B! efore the "94 election, members of Congress feared Limbaugh's power. "In the Senate, a bill referred to as the "Hush Rush" was designed to silence him, although it did not pass" (Corry 50)...

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