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    research I have learned that Bill Clinton made almost $105 million giving speeches from 2001 to 2012 — and his biggest fees came from foreign hosts while his wife was secretary of State: $1.4 million from a Nigerian media firm (for two visits to Lagos); $750,000 from the Swedish telecommunication giant Ericsson; $600,000 from Dutch financial firm Achmea; and $500,000 from Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to Vladimir Putin 's Kremlin. Surely Hillary Clinton 's 2009 promise to avoid

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    great things for the United States since 1945 and that deserve respect but the one I admire most is the 42nd president Bill Clinton. He was a charming and intelligent men who helped Americans with their lives, implanted stricter gun control, and greatly improved our economy when it was failing. Even now when he left the office he still does more to help the Country with the Clinton Foundation than most politicians, plus he can play the saxophone. The legislations he signed were and still are a great

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    known as Bill Clinton was our 42nd president serving his terms from Jan. 20th, 1993 too Jan. 19th, 2001. Bill Clinton was a great president he accomplished many things that have never been done or have not been done in many years, but everyone has their flaws as he did he was the cause of a lot of controversy between '95 and '98 involving white house intern Ms. Monica Lewinsky. He might have a lot of defaults thrown his way but, in the end, he changed America for the better. When Bill Clinton was sworn

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    -Bill Clinton: The First Baby-Boomer President -The Democratic nominee for the election of 1992 is Bill Clinton : governor of Arkansas who despite accusations of womanizing and draft evasion, is chosen aloingside Albert Gore as his running mate. -Clinton had formed, with other centrist Democrats, the Democratic Leadership Council which pointed the party into a new direction focusing on stimulating the economy, reform of the welfare system, and overhauling the nation’s health-care apparatus

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    Definition of Integrity · Since this paper deals with the idea of integrity in leadership, it is useful to start this paper defining integrity. Webster's dictionary defines integrity as "uncompromising adherence to a code of moral, artistic or other values; utter sincerity, honesty and candor, avoidance of deception, expediency, or shallowness of any kind" Let us exam this definition a bit deeper. The first part of the definition talks of uncompromising adherence. This means that one would always

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    A well known leader of the 21st century that embodies the meaning and qualities of a leader is Former United States President Bill Clinton from his work with the minorities, fixing the education system, and foreign countries. Bill Clinton shows that being a leader is not only about what is best for yourself personally but what is also better for everybody.

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    William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19th, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. Bills father, William Jefferson Blythe, had died in a car crash three months before Clinton was born, leaving his mom Virginia Cassidy Blythe to take care of him. Bills mom moved away to further her education in New Orleans. Bill stayed with his grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy where they taught him the value of education. Bill was reading little books by the age of 3. Clinton’s mother came home in 1950 with her nursing

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    Throughout the history of the United States and its presidents, there have been a few sex scandals. The two that I am choosing to focus on are Thomas Jefferson and Bill Clinton. Of the two, I believe that the scandal involving President Clinton is the worse scandal. One of the main reasons that I can see both of these being considered sex scandals is that both men were married at the time they both occurred. While in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds it wasn’t considered uncommon or necessarily

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    don't agree with you they're all fools. That's just not true.” Bill Clinton followed this quote up with with his foreign policy ideas. While Bill Clinton’s policy might be viewed as he entered places to late; his presidency was based around domestic and not foreign policy. In doing this he did not change much in terms of foreign policy from Bush. He all did when he thought it would help the economy or when he got forced to. Bill Clinton views on what should be done in the Middle East were very

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    As William J. Clinton once said himself, “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”. President Clinton was certainly part of what was right with America, and despite his own personal scandals while in office, he was a successful leader. The economic growth that the U.S. benefitted from due to Clinton’s legislative actions, his diplomacy when dealing with other countries, and his effective and progressive use of judicial power are all qualities to consider

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