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Bill Clinton may have been the most fortunate president in US History. He took office at a time of unparalleled peace and prosperity, when America stood alone as the world’s superpower. What did Clinton do with this unprecedented opportunity? Historian and political commentator Bill Whittle tells the story of a President who accomplished much, but could have accomplished so much more.
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Bill Clinton: The Fall from Grace
Presented by Bill Whittle
When Bill Clinton took office on January 20, 1993, at age forty-six, he was the first of his generation—the baby boomers born after World War II—to reach the White House.
The United States had recently won its four-decade-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, making it the dominant nation in the world. Everything seemed possible.
“There is nothing wrong with America,” Clinton told the inauguration crowd, “that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”
But nothing went right in Clinton’s first few months on the job.
Intending to prove himself as a no-nonsense commander-in-chief, in the summer of 1993 Clinton ordered U.S. troops to capture a troublesome warlord, Mohamed Farrah Aidid, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Despite the American soldiers’ heroic efforts, it was a high-profile disaster. Eighteen Americans had died in the infamous ‘Black Hawk Down’ incident, and as a result, Clinton got cold feet. He immediately ordered the remaining troops out of the country. The new president looked like a hopeless amateur.
That perception only intensified when his proposal to take over the American healthcare industry, a full one-seventh of the economy, blew up in his face. Aiming to cement his place
