Bill Clinton

There's nothing at all that Bill Clinton ate that other Americans throw away. I have the journal with me here and nothing is mentioned about Bill Clinton's strange eating habit. This is a marketing gimmick used by Ty Bollinger to market his book: "Cancer: Step Outside the Box". It is strange that he lost seven relatives to cancer, including his mother and father. What a coincidence! People will go to any length to make money. It is a sham.

I don't know who got access to my account, but I did not write this. - Ormewood

"The truth is that more military personnel died during the first six years of the Bush administration than died during the eight years Clinton was in office, even counting military deaths in the U.S. from accidents, murders, suicides and natural causes. According to the Congressional Research Servicereport...7,500 troops died during Clinton's eight years in office. During Bush's first six years, the number was 8,792. And that excludes the 899 combat deaths in 2007, which was the deadliest year of the Iraq war for U.S. troops. (We don't yet have figures for total deaths for that year.)"

Furthermore, "In 1993 the military had 1.7 million men and women in uniform. During that same year, 1,175 of them died from accidents, homicide, suicide and illness. That makes the 1993 non-hostile death rate for military personnel 69.1 per 100,000. That's actually fairly low; the rate for all Americans age 20 to 29 is about 97.5. Today's military is considerably smaller, with just under 1.4 million personnel.

To make an apples-to-apples comparison, we would need to separate combat and non-combat deaths. According to the CRS, during the Clinton administration, one person in uniform died as a result of hostilities and another 75 died as a result of terrorist attacks. By contrast, during the first six years of the Bush administration, 2,596 troops died from hostilities and 55 from terrorist attacks. Looking at the non-hostile deaths (i.e., accidents, homicides, suicides and illnesses), we find that an average of 947 military personnel died each year during the Bush administration compared with 913 during the Clinton administration." Factcheck.org

Bill Clinton's Cabinet:

• Secretary of State Warren Christopher (1993-1997)
• Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen (1993-1994)
• Defense Secretary Les Aspin, Jr. (1993-1994)
• Attorney General Janet Reno (1993-2001)
• Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt (1993-2001)
• Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy (1993-1994)
• Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown (1993-1996)
• Labor Secretary Robert Reich (1993-1997)
• Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala (1993-2001)
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros (1993-1997)
• Transportation Secretary Federico Peña (1993-1997)
• Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary (1993-1997)
• Education Secretary Richard Riley (1993-2001)
• Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown (1993-1997)
• Defense Secretary William Perry (1994-1997)
• Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman (1994-2001)
• Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (1995-1999)
• Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor (1996-1997)
• Secretary of State Madeline Albright (1997-2001)
• Defense Secretary William Cohen (1997-2001)
• Commerce Secretary William Daley (1997-2000)
• Labor Secretary Alexis Herman (1997-2001)
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo (1997-2001)
• Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater (1997-2001)
• Energy Secretary Federico Peña (1997-1998)
• Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (1998-2001)
• Veterans Affairs Secretary Togo West (1998-2000)
• Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (1999-2001)
• Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta (2000-2001)
• Veterans Affairs Secretary Hershel Gober (2000-2001)

An important protective bill that passed in 1993 soon after taking office was the Family and Medical Leave Act. This act required large employers to give employees time off for illnesses or pregnancy.

Another event that occurred in 1993 was the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement that allowed for nonrestricted trade between Canada, the U.S., Chile, and Mexico.

A huge defeat for Clinton was when his and Hillary Clinton's plan for a national health care system failed.

Clinton's second term in office was marked by controversy surrounding relationships he had with White House staffer, Monica Lewinsky. Clinton denied having a relationship with her under oath in a deposition. However, he later recanted when it was revealed that she had evidence of their relationship. He had to pay a fine and was disbarred temporarily. In 1998, the House of Representatives voted to impeach Clinton. The Senate, however, did not vote to remove him from office.

Economically, the U.S. experienced a period of prosperity during Clinton's time in office. The stock marketrose dramatically. This helped add to his popularity.