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- Founder, The Clinton Foundation
- 42nd President of the United States
William Jefferson Clinton was elected President of the United States in 1992, and again in 1996, the first Democratic president to be awarded a second term in six decades. Under his leadership, the United States enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. His
administration resulted in moving the nation from record deficits
to record surpluses; the creation of over 22 million jobs; low
levels of unemployment, poverty and crime; and the highest
homeownership and college enrollment rates in history.
After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the
William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States
and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.
Upon moving his offices to Harlem in 2002, he launched the Foundation’s first program to help local small
business owners succeed. Since then, this initiative has evolved into the Clinton Economic Opportunity
Initiative, which is helping individuals and families succeed and small businesses grow. Also in 2002, at the
World AIDS Conference in Barcelona, President Clinton started the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI) to
assist developing countries in implementing large-scale, integrated, care, treatment and prevention
programs that will turn the tide on the epidemic. Today, 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS are
accessing lifesaving treatment because of CHAI.
In addition his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with former President George H.W. Bush
three times – after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008 – to
help raise money for recovery efforts. He also served as the U.N. Envoy for Tsunami Recovery to help
people “build back better.” President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary
Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York. |
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