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DOES Bill Clinton still not grasp that the current economic crisis is in large measure his legacy? Obviously that's the case, or he wouldn't have had the temerity to write a 14-point memo for Newsweek on how to fix the economy that never once refers to the home mortgage collapse and other manifestations of Wall Street greed that he enabled as president.
Endorsing the Republican agenda of financial industry deregulation, reversing New Deal safeguards, President Clinton pursued policies that in the long run created more damage to the American economy than any other president since Herbert Hoover, whose presidential tenure is linked to the Great Depression.
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Bill Clinton Since his recent appointment as United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, former President Bill Clinton has been called, half-seriously, "president of Haiti" and "viceroy." According to Robert Maguire, a political science professor at Trinity College in Washington DC and a leading expert on Haiti, the ex-president is wellqualifi ed for the job.
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I. INTRODUCTION
This Article will appear in revised form as part of a book tentatively titled The Decline and Fall of the Pardon Power: A History. A...
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NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was hospitalized Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering discomfort in his chest.
Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds were placed inside the artery as part of a medical procedure that is common for people with severe heart disease.
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YEARS AGO
From the Tribune, Feb. 12, 1999: The story of the day was the acquittal of President Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial. The Tribune headline was one huge word: ACQUITTED.
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NEW YORK - For Bill Clinton, it is again the economy, stupid.
The former president has finished writing a new book, "Back to Work," which comes out in November. In a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press, he called the 200-page book a guide to the current economic slump, how it was caused and how to recover.
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The Associated Press
Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of the possible worldview of the incoming freshman class.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Former President Bill Clinton said desperately needed U.S. aid is coming to Haiti despite delays after listening on Wednesday to refugees in a sprawling homeless camp complain of a lack of food, jobs and housing nine months after a devastating earthquake.
Clinton, the co-chair of the commission overseeing Haiti's reconstruction, expressed frustration with the slow delivery of promised funds by donors who have delivered about $732 million of a promised $5.3 billion in funds for 2010-11, along with debt relief. Most notably absent is the United States, which has yet to deliver any of its promised $1.15 billion.
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MANAUS, Brazil, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- President Bill Clinton, honorary chancellor of the Laureate International Universities network, delivered a speech on the importance of higher education and civic engagement to the future of Brazil at Centro Universitario do Norte (UniNorte) on March 26. The President addressed more than 300 guests, including students, alumni and faculty on the campus of UniNorte - the largest institution of higher education in the northern region of Brazil and a member of the Laureate International Universities network.
This is my eighth appearance before a Laureate university audience, three of which have been here in Brazil," said President Clinton. He went on to note that "I agreed to be the honorary chancellor of the Laureate International Universitie...
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WASHINGTON - It's a claim that has been central to Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign: that he "balanced the budget for four straight years" when he was speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1990s.
Now, former President Bill Clinton is calling Gingrich out, saying it's "not really" accurate for Gingrich to take the credit for all those balanced budgets.