Bill Clinton: The second U.S. president to be impeachedAn overview of Bill Clinton. (more)See all videos for this articleBill Clinton (born August 19, 1946, , , U.S.) is the 42nd of the (1993–2001), who oversaw the longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. to be ; he was acquitted by the in 1999. Early life Bill ClintonBill Clinton as a young boy.(more)Bill Clinton’s father was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before his son was born. His widow, Virginia Dell Blythe, married Roger Clinton, and, despite their unstable union (they divorced and then remarried) and her husband’s alcoholism, her son eventually took his stepfather’s name. Reared in part by his maternal grandmother, Bill Clinton developed political aspirations at an early age; they were solidified (by his own account) in July 1963, when he met and shook hands with Pres. . Clinton enrolled at in Washington, D.C., in 1964 and graduated in 1968 with a degree in international affairs. During his freshman and sophomore years he was elected student president, and during his junior and senior years he worked as an intern for Sen. , the Arkansas Democrat who chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Fulbright was a vocal critic of the , and Clinton, like many young men of his generation, opposed the war as well. He received a draft deferment for the first year of his studies as a at the in 1968 and later attempted to extend the deferment by applying to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program at the School of Law. Although he soon changed his plans and returned to Oxford, thus making himself eligible for the draft, he was not chosen. While at Oxford, Clinton wrote a letter to the director of the Arkansas program thanking the director for “saving” him from the draft and explaining his concern that his opposition to the war could ruin his future “political viability.” During this period Clinton also experimented with ; his later claim that he “didn’t inhale” would become the subject of much ridicule. Political partnersBill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day, October 11, 1975.(more)Bill ClintonBill Clinton campaigning for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1974.(more)Bill ClintonBill Clinton being sworn in as governor of Arkansas, January 9, 1979.(more)After graduating from Yale University Law School in 1973, Clinton joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas School of Law, where he taught until 1976. In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. . In 1975 he married a fellow Yale Law graduate, attorney Hillary Rodham (), who thereafter took an active role in his political career. In the following year he was elected of Arkansas, and in 1978 he won the governorship, becoming the youngest governor the country had seen in 40 years., William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (nascido como William Jefferson Blythe III; Hope, 19 de agosto de 1946) é um político dos Estados Unidos que serviu como o 42.º presidente do país por dois mandatos, entre 1993 e 2001. [1], A speech delivered by President Bill Clinton at the December 6, 1995 White House Conference on HIV/AIDS projected that a cure for AIDS and a vaccine to prevent further infection would be developed..