Why was Bill Clinton a good leader?

Answer 1

History will decide what kind of leader President Clinton was. After being out of office for at least 20 years (one generation) historians will have varied opinions about what sort of President, he was. But until then we know these things about his Presidency:

The U.S. enjoyed peace and economic well being. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home ownership in the country's history, dropping crime rates in many places. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and achieved a budget surplus. In 1998, as a result of issues surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern, Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president. In the world, he successfully dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking.

Some say these accomplishments were left from the Reagan - Bush Presidency, others will say these were because the Congressional Party majority was the same as the Presidents.

For whatever reasons things were accomplished under the Clinton Presidency. It is now up to history to decide how they were accomplished, whether by Clinton, Congress or his predocessors Presidents Reagan and Bush, Sr.