Here’s a RARE
PAPER HAND TOWEL FROM THE WHITE HOUSE MEN’S BATHROOM OBTAINED DURING
PRESIDENT CLINTON’S ADMINISTRATION IN 1994.
[Should be checked for DNA! lol]
This
paper towel features the Presidential Seal stamped in gold.
This
heavy paper hand towel measures 4½” x 10” and is in very fine, original unused
condition!
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Bill Clinton is an American
politician from Arkansas who served as the 42nd President of the United States
(1993-2001). He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first
baby-boomer generation President.
During the administration of William
Jefferson Clinton, the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well being than at
any time in its history. He was the first Democratic president since Franklin
D. Roosevelt to win a second term. He could point to the lowest unemployment
rate in modern times, the lowest inflation in 30 years, the highest home
ownership in the country’s history, dropping crime rates in many places, and
reduced welfare rolls. He proposed the first balanced budget in decades and
achieved a budget surplus. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in
2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial
discrimination.
After the failure in his second year
of a huge program of health care reform, Clinton shifted emphasis, declaring
“the era of big government is over.” He sought legislation to upgrade
education, to protect jobs of parents who must care for sick children, to
restrict handgun sales, and to strengthen environmental rules.
President Clinton was born William
Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after
his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother
wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family
name.
He excelled as a student and as a
saxophone player and once considered becoming a professional musician. As a
delegate to Boys Nation while in high school, he met President John Kennedy in
the White House Rose Garden. The encounter led him to enter a life of public
service.
Clinton graduated from Georgetown
University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He
received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in
Arkansas.
He was defeated in his campaign for
Congress in Arkansas’s Third District in 1974. The next year he married Hillary
Rodham, a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School. In 1980, Chelsea,
their only child, was born.
Clinton was elected Arkansas
Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. After losing a bid
for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until he
defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992
presidential race.
Clinton and his running mate,
Tennessee’s Senator Albert Gore Jr., then 44, represented a new generation in
American political leadership. For the first time in 12 years both the White
House and Congress were held by the same party. But that political edge was
brief; the Republicans won both houses of Congress in 1994.
In 1998, as a result of issues
surrounding personal indiscretions with a young woman White House intern,
Clinton was the second U.S. president to be impeached by the House of
Representatives. He was tried in the Senate and found not guilty of the charges
brought against him. He apologized to the nation for his actions and continued
to have unprecedented popular approval ratings for his job as president.
In the world, he successfully
dispatched peace keeping forces to war-torn Bosnia and bombed Iraq when Saddam
Hussein stopped United Nations inspections for evidence of nuclear, chemical,
and biological weapons. He became a global proponent for an expanded NATO, more
open international trade, and a worldwide campaign against drug trafficking. He
drew huge crowds when he traveled through South America, Europe, Russia,
Africa, and China, advocating U.S. style freedom.
The biography for President Clinton
and past presidents is courtesy of the White House Historical Association.
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