William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas, named after his father who had died three months prior to his birth in a traffic accident. His mother was Virginia Cassidy. When he was four years old his mother wed Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Ark...

On December 19th of 1998, Congress passed two articles of impeachment against our then president, William Jefferson Clinton. These actions taken by the house were a result in Clinton having an inappropriate sexual relationship with his intern, Monica Lewinsky. This investigation spear-headed at Cl...

The Constitution gives the President three discrete functions following bicameral adoption of a bill in Congress. First, he may elect to sign it. Second, he may veto the bill and return it with a statement of his objections to the house of Congress in which the bill originated. Finally, he may do no...

Bill Clinton assumed the Presidency in 1993 with a full foreign policy plate. The humanitarian military mission in Somalia, the downward spiraling situation in Bosnia, sustained defiance by Saddam Hussein against United Nations sanctions on Iraq, political and economic chaos in the former Soviet Uni...

The Federalist Papers were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in order to garner support for the soon to be Constitution of the United States. In 65, Hamilton discusses the powers of the senate in relation to the impeachment process. The Senate is designated as "suffici...

Labor disputes have been accruing since early American history. There have been unsettled issues that would either affect the employer or the employees. When employers and employees were unable to solve their differences employees feel that in order to have reasonable demands met they wo...

The line item veto came into effect January 1st, 1997 after being passed in an overwhelmingly Republican House, and the Senate, (with many objections by Senator Robert Byrd). However, the republican bill did not live for long, although it took a very long time to pass it, it was struck down in 1998 ...

Brad Berman World Since 1945 12/17/2001 Clintonian Materialism Clintonomics, the successor of Reganomics of the 1980's and early 90's brought post-Baby Boom prosperity and an unprecedented era of wealth to the United States without regard for long-term world peace. The United Sta...

The term executive privilege is defined by the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (2001) as the "exemption of the executive branch of government, or its officers, from having to give evidence, specifically, in U.S. law, the exemption of the president from disclosing information to congre...

In the history of the United States, many presidents have been struck down because of their inability to avoid career-crippling scandals. In this research paper, I will discuss two former presidents whose terms were riddled with scandal, Clinton with whitewater, and Nixon with Watergate. First, I ...

A Spinning Conception A Brief summary of "The No Spin Zone" Bill O'Reilly has once again has taken on some of Americas most powerful people in his latest literary achievement titled "The No Spin Zone". In this attempt to unmask the almighty public opinion, O'Reilly ...

Behind the Oval Office President Clinton contacted Dick Morris, an associate of seventeen years, one month before the 1994 gubernatorial elections with one goal in mind, to win the 1996 presidential election. His intentions were to get Morris's help to win back the presidency and redefin...

Twenty-five years ago, after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Gerald Ford promised a return to normalcy. "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," President Ford declared. But it was not. The Watergate scandal, and the remedies against future abuses of power, would have an en...

Problems With Teen Smoking in America Teen smoking is a serious problem in the United States because the tobacco industry targets teenagers with their persuasive advertising. We see often in public places, teenagers who are standing around, smoking cigarettes. Recently, there has been legislation th...

Throughout our nations recent history our government has often attempted to introduce us to several different centralized social policies such as FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. During the mid-1990s both the "Health Security" effort and the Welfare Reform Bill ...

The American Monarchy: Analysis of President Bush's Use of the Executive Order "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda Cool." Paul Begala, former counselor to President Bill Clinton, put it best when he was quoted in regards to President Clinton's increased use of execut...

Social Policy IMMIGRANTS' BENEFITS CONTINUE TO BE STICKING POINT IN HOUSE WELFARE DEBATE Efforts to restore aid to legal immigrants cut in 1996 have polarized members of Congress despite political benefits Republicans are sending an update of welfare law to the House floor that promises a modest...

Is Tony Blair more like a President than a Prime Minister In order to assess whether Tony Blair's leadership is more presidential than prime ministerial, one must first consider the significant differences between the presidential and Parliamentary regimes. The Presidential system of go...

Polarization in the Political System On Tuesday, November 14, 1995, in what has been perceived as the years biggest non-event, the federal government shut down all "non-essential" services due to what was, for all intents and purposes, a game of national "chicken" between the House ...

On Tuesday, November 14, 1995, in what has been perceived as the years biggest non-event, the federal government shut down all "non-essential" services due to what was, for all intents and purposes, a game of national "chicken" between the House Speaker and the President. And, at an ...

During his time in office, President George W. Bush has led the American people through trials and hardships unseen since Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency: An attack on American soil. Through his devotion to the safety of America in the War on Terrorism, as well as his attention to key do...

France, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, did not have a government anywhere near as complex as the current one in the United States. This allowed their leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, total control without fear of consequences for his actions. The United States of America is a demo...

The first study of clandestine operations was initiated 1988 in hopes of learning about the relationship between the President and the intelligence committees of Congress. Stephan F. Knott, an Assistance Professor of Political Science at the Untied States Air Force Academy, picked up this study o...

Since 1856, two political parties have been dominant, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. As they have butted heads, no other party has been elected to the office of president. In fact, the only time a third party received more votes than the Republican or Democratic parties was in t...

he idea of a British Presidency is an exaggeration. Discuss. This essay is not simply about Britain turning into a second America, it is not just about a changing culture, it looks into how Tony Blair since winning the 1997 General Election has employed tactics and strategies of various American ...