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Bill Clinton

ACTOR · BORN 1946

Bill Clinton

Born
19 August 1946

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Bill Clinton (born 19 August 1946) is a screenwriter.

9 Interesting Facts About Bill Clinton

Interesting Facts (4)

  1. #001

    At the 1988 Democratic Convention, he delivered the introduction for Michael Dukakis, and it became the longest keynote speech in American political history. Throughout the speech the crowd kept shouting for Dukakis and wanted him off the stage; after 48 minutes he said, "In closing..." and the whole audience rose to its feet and went wild. Soon afterward he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962), where Carson gave him a three-minute, 48-second introduction running several pages, the longest introduction Carson ever gave a guest. When Clinton finally came out, Carson said, "Well, governor, I thank you for coming here tonight. And my first question is, how are you?" and then set an hourglass on the desk.

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  2. #002

    Footage exists of a young Bill Clinton shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy. It was broadcast on CBS News television during his 1992 presidential campaign.

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    He became the first sitting U.S. president to face a lawsuit, filed by Paula Jones, who alleged that he had sexually harassed her six years earlier.

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    He is named in the lyrics of the theme song to the animated series Animaniacs (1993) ("....Wakko packs away the snacks, while Bill Clinton plays the sax.").

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    He and George H.W. Bush, the former president who ran against him in 1992, had plenty of political and personal disagreements, yet in recent years the two have become friends. They have appeared together in several commercials supporting victims of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. As quoted in Time magazine, former First Lady Barbara Bush called them "The Odd Couple".

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Life & Family (4)

  1. #006

    Roger Clinton never adopted him; he began using the name "Clinton" when he started school. As a teenager, when his younger half-brother Roger Clinton was about to begin school, Bill went to court and had his name legally changed to "Clinton". The future president wanted to share his half-brother's surname so the Arkansas school system would not be confused.

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    His grandparents ran a grocery store and made a point of extending credit to customers of every race at a time when segregation was the norm.

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  3. #008

    His mother, Virginia Clinton Kelley, married Roger Clinton, an alcoholic who beat his wife and threatened to kill her. Bill vividly remembers being 5 years old and witnessing his stepfather fire a gun at his mother; the bullet smashed into a wall next to where Virginia was sitting. As Bill grew older, he began to step in to stop his stepfather's violence against her. Bill said he lacked a male role model growing up, since his biological father, William, died before he was born and his stepfather Roger was rarely involved in his life. He has also said that his mother's troubled, violent marriage to Roger shaped his own views on marriage and family as a young adult, when he doubted his ability to have a successful marriage.

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  4. #009

    The press coined his nickname "The Comeback Kid" after his strong second-place finish in the 1992 New Hampshire primary.

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