柯林顿(1946年～)

Clinton, William Jefferson，原名William Jefferson Blythe III。

美国第四十二任总统（1993～2001）。出生之前父亲因车祸丧生，後来母亲改嫁，为继父罗杰.柯林顿所收养。他曾就读於乔治城大学、哈佛大学和耶鲁大学法学院，後来在阿肯色大学法学院教书。1976年他被选为阿肯色州总检察长，1978年当选州长，1982年再次当选。担任州长期间，改革该州的教育制度和透过优惠税收政策鼓励在该州投资工业。1992年通过被控行为不检的考验後，赢得民主党总统候选人的提名，并打败现任总统布希。主政期间，在1993年促使国会通过「北美自由贸易协定」。他和妻子希拉蕊一致强烈鼓吹改革美国医疗体系的计画，但遭国会否决。在波士尼亚赫塞哥维纳危机刚开始时，他派美国军队去维持和平。1994年民主党人第一次失去对国会的控制（自1954年以来）。当有人努力阻隢政府把精力花费在社会改革时，柯林顿以减少赤字计画来作回应。1996年总统大选时，打败杜尔而得以连任。他居间调停北爱尔兰及中东的和平。1998年在企图隐瞒他与白宫实习生的婚外情而被指控做伪证和妨碍司法後，成为第二位遭到弹劾的美国总统，1999年被参议院宣告无罪。在职期间历经了美国最长的经济扩张和平时期。

English version：

1946年～

Clinton, William Jefferson

42nd president of the U.S. (1993-2001). Born in Hope, Arkansas, soon after his father's death in a car crash, he later took the last name of his mother's second husband, Roger Clinton. He attended Georgetown University, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale law school, then taught at the University of Arkansas law school. He served as state attorney general (1977-79) and served several terms as governor (1979-81, 1983-92), during which he reformed Arkansas's educational system and encouraged the growth of industry through favorable tax policies. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992 after withstanding charges of personal impropriety and defeated the incumbent, George Bush. As president, Clinton obtained approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. He and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, strongly advocated their plan to overhaul the U.S. health-care system, but Congress rejected it. He committed U.S. forces to a peacekeeping initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1994 the Democrats lost control of Congress for the first time since 1954. Clinton responded by offering a deficit-reduction plan while opposing efforts to slow government spending on social programs. He defeated Robert Dole to win reelection in 1996. In 1997 he helped broker a peace agreement in Northern Ireland. He faced renewed charges of personal impropriety, this time involving Monica Lewinsky; he denied the charges before a grand jury, but ultimately acknowledged “improper relations” in a televised address. In 1998 Clinton became the second president in history to be impeached. Charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, he was acquitted at his Senate trial in 1999. His two terms saw sustained economic growth and successive budget surpluses, the first in three decades.