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Bill Clinton: United States
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In 1996, Clinton won re-election over Republican Senator Bob Dole. In the second term of the Clinton-Gore administration, American prosperity continued, while international crises arose in the Middle East and Yugoslavia. Even bigger problems at home began in 1998. During the course of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against Clinton by Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr accused Clinton of lying to a federal grand jury about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Over the course of the next year, Americans were bombarded with Starr's findings, complete with sordid details of the two-year affair, which Clinton vigorously denied, until he was faced with DNA evidence and was forced to admit his relationship with the then-21-year-old Lewinsky.
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Social conservatives were put off by the impression of Bill Clinton having been a "hippie" during the late 1960s, his coming-of-age era. In the 1960s... Clinton might not have been viewed as such by many of those in the hippie subculture. Clinton avoided the draft with a student deferment while studying abroad during the Vietnam War. Clinton's marijuana experimentation — clumsily excused by Clinton's statement that he "didn't inhale" — further damaged his image with some voters. Although he was actually to the right of previous Democratic candidates for the presidency on many issues — he supported the death penalty, curfews, uniforms in public schools, and other measures opposed by youth rights supporters, and he expanded the War on Drugs greatly while in office — Clinton's actions during the 1960s were never forgotten by his opponents. Intense opposition to the Clintons was perhaps the main factor in the phenomenal growth of conservative talk radio in the 1990s.
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Following his electoral defeat, Clinton joined his friend Bruce Lindsey's law firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings, though he spent most of the next two years working on his re-election campaign. In 1982, Clinton reclaimed his old job as governor and kept it for another 10 years, helping Arkansas transform its economy and significantly improving the state's educational system. He became a leading figure among the New Democrats.[20] The New Democrats, organized within the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) were a branch of the Democratic Party that called for welfare reform and smaller government, a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans. He served as Chair of the National Governors Association from 1986 to 1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.[14]
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Upon returning to his native state of Arkansas, Clinton taught law at the University of Arkansas. While teaching, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for the House of Representatives in 1974. Two years later, he was elected the Arkansas Attorney General. In 1978, he won the governorship, which put him on the fast track to the White House. He was the youngest governor in the U.S. at the time, and the youngest governor of any state since 1938.
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, enacted by Clinton on October 21, 1998, served as the first significant amendment to the Copyright Act since 1976. The DMCA extended the protection of intellectual property to outlaw reverse engineering of digital protection. It ... provided a framework for sound recording copyright owners and recording artists to seek public performance royalties under statute, which proved to be a landmark achievement for the recording industry.[42]
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Clinton cited the "appalling" example of 12 editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were published on Sept. 30, 2005, in a Danish newspaper. In one cartoon, Muhammad wears a bomb-shaped turban. A furor erupted over the cartoons in parts of the Muslim world—any depiction of Muhammad being viewed as promoting idolatry—and led to official protests, boycotts of Danish goods, and a Jan. 30 statement from the European Union defending the Danish government and freedom of the press.
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