Was William “Bill” Clinton a good president? I am not saying he was the worst
one we have ever had, but he did a lot of things to give himself a bad name to the citizens
of the United States of America. Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, was
born in 1946 in Arkansas. He is married to Hillary Clinton, and he has one daughter
named Chelsea Clinton. Clinton served two terms from 19993 to 2001. From the
beginning of his term to the end, it always seemed as though he was in some from of
trouble. The Whitewater scandal was the first. Whitewater is a development of land for
tract housing in Arkansas. The Clintons invested into whitewater before his term of
governor of Arkansas.
In 1994, a woman named Paula Jones hit Clinton with a civil lawsuit. Jones
claimed that her rights were violated when Clinton made a sexual proposition to her
while Clinton was serving as governor in Arkansas. The suit was going to be delayed
until Clinton was out of office, but then it was ruled that the president had no protection
from civil lawsuits. The man in charge of investigating the Whitewater scandal and the
Paula Jones case, he just kept digging up dirt on Clinton. His investigation found that
Clinton had an affair with a Whitehouse aide Monica Lewenski. This would turn out to
be the most embarrassing event in Clinton’s term. But, the fact that both Clinton and
Lewenski lied under oath is what made it so bad. Clinton order air strikes on Iraq around
the same time as this incident. After the air strikes were ordered, most of the attention
was pulled off of the scandal. I will give Clinton some credit for what he had
accomplished too during his terms.