Bill Clinton Achievements

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Once every four years American citizens vote for the next President of the United States. The winner is determined by the number of Electoral College votes he/she receives. Some presidents are popular enough to serve the two term maximum. President Clinton was elected as the 42nd president of the United States in 1993. (“William J. Clinton“) According to The White House biography, “William J. Clinton” Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general in 1976. Clinton partnered with 43rd President Bush to help rebuild Haiti. Based upon his Civil rights, Environment, and Homeland security policies, President Clinton was a successful president.
President Clinton’s policies on Civil rights helped him a great President. President Clinton promised open
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Bill Clinton began his presidency with an outspoken commitment to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emission in an to address climate change. He said that climate change was a global strategic threat that required bold leadership and, in his first Earth Day address, promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. (“Clintons Environmental Legacy”). Clinton used executive power to order one third of national forest land. This move, which covered more than 58 million acres in 39 states, protected all remaining national forest land that had not already been developed or granted permanent protection as a wilderness area, including the Tonga’s National Forest in Alaska. Clinton faced an aggressive and hostile congress that worked constantly. In his last years of office, he used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to place over 3 million acres of federal land off-limits to development by declaring them "national monuments." These areas include Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante, Arizona's Grand-Canyon-Prashant and California's Pinnacles. With these actions, Clinton set aside more acreage under the Act than Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to take advantage of the Act and the one most credited with establishing the U.S. system of federal land protection. In addition to his stance on Environment, president Clinton was a great leader because of his ideas regarding homeland