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    Bill Clinton’s Decline A tragic hero is a person who is adored or praised by the public eye but then chooses an action that eventually leads to his or her’s own destruction. These kind of heroes have been around for an extreme amount of time. A tragic hero is most commonly heard of in a novel or epic, but there have been many historical tragic heroes throughout the real world. Every continent, every country, and even every state has had at least one real life tragic hero in their midst. The United

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    On January 19, 1998 Matt Drudge posted an article accusing Bill Clinton and a young white house intern, whose name was not released until later, having inappropriate sexual relations. At this time drudge was not a reliable source because many of his gossip articles had been proven wrong, but because accusations were already being thrown at Clinton and the white house intern, many media organizations began to grab onto the story and produce more information. “The Drudge Report opened floodgates by

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    Comparing Campaigns While it is undeniable that both of the Obama and Clinton campaigns were successful, their methods for winning could not be more different. Attacking against other candidates, defending personal relations, and putting others on the defense were all tactics that Bill Clinton used to win, going in line with how politics were run back in 1992. Attending rallies, speaking for the people, and shaking hands were Obama's main means for winning. Both campaigns had vastly different

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    The Monica Lewinsky case Monica Lewinsky’s sexual relationship with Bill Clinton showed America that no matter how high up you are in the government one can still make an average man’s mistakes. Monica Lewinsky was an intern at the white House at the White House when she began the sexual relationship with Clinton. Soon after changing jobs to working at the pentagon, Lewinsky’s secret conversations with Clinton were secretly recorded by an ex friend of Lewinsky. “Lewinsky, then at age 24, was

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    into the house and my parents were glued to the television. It was basically on every channel, the House of Representative voted to impeach President Bill Clinton. I remember the news asking people what they thought. The people they asked were divided. The older crowd was for his removal from office and the younger crowd was against it. President Bill Clinton’s impeachment was not the first in American history. The first presidential impeachment was in 1868 when President Johnson had removed the

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    Bill Clinton Biography

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    Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. His paternal father died a few months prior to his birth; when he was four years old his mom remarried. She married Roger Clinton; Bill (William) adopted the last name Clinton in high school. In 1968 he graduated from Georgetown University and in the same year, with the Rhodes Scholarship, started at Oxford University. Clinton later received a law degree from Yale University in 1973. Clinton returned to his

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    The five most important things that I have learned for the week are five different roles of the president. 1. Chief executive 2. Commander in chief 3. Head of state 4. Political party leader 5. Chief diplomat I have learned so much this week about what it takes to be president and what the duties of the job are and I was quite astonished how of all the stressful tasks that a president does. I myself criticize presidents just like many other Americans although many of the politics I do not agree

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    a sense of transparency to help their followers understand their actions. A position such as the President of the United States is a true test of leadership; some of the men who try to assume the role have failed. For example, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, simply lied to the American public. The lies told by these Presidents cost them the trust of the American people. Anyone who has climbed the ladder of success, no matter what field or industry, would all agree on one thing: they will not stop

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    President is Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in the small town of Hope, Arkansas. Bill was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, who had been killed in a car accident just three months before he was born. Bill’s birth name was William Jefferson Blythe III. His mother, Virginia Cassidy Blyth, moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study nursing and find a way to support herself and Bill Clinton, and he stayed

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    So, the widely debated and controversial topic that has people falling in big arguments. Bill Clinton Versus Ronald Reagan economic plan, Let's start with Ronald Reagan. His main economic goals were to reduce the growth of government spending, reduce the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reduce government regulation, and tighten the money supply in order to reduce inflation. Ronald had a degree in Economics that he obtained in Eureka College. As you may know America is in a very big

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