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Bill Jefferson Clinton served as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993, to January 20, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of Arkansas from 1983 to 1992. During his presidency, Clinton focused on several key policies, including welfare reform, economic growth, and healthcare reform. His administration is noted for achieving a budget surplus and for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Thank you very much, and please be seated. I told the Vice President what I was about to do, and he wanted to come out and say hello to you. But he has another meeting; he's trying to pass our economic plan, so he has to go. He just wanted…
Yes. When my mother left the hospital with me, we went there. We lived there until I was 4. When I was 4, my mother remarried Roger Clinton, and we moved out on the other side of town, a little bitty house on 13th Street. And I understand…
He's like a lot of people down here. He's got a high IQ and not a lot of formal education but a world of horse sense. I mean, he's really a smart man. And when I was a child living down here and then after I moved to Hot Springs when I was…
Yes, it's been dry. We may not get many big melons this year. A lot of it is the seeds and the sand, the seeds and the soil and just proper care. It's really interesting to watch them get into the contest the last week or two because if…
Now, in August, when they start having the contest for the biggest melon, they're really not much. They don't taste very good after they get about 65 pounds or bigger than that, they've got so much water in them. But you can almost…
They're sweeter. You'll see. They're going to load up. I'm going to ask Jack how many yellow-meated ones he put on. But I had him put one or two on.
Yes. He loves the State police. He did when I first met him in 1969, when his father was the Governor and he and I were students. And I was fixin' to go--I had been in England, and he was fixin' to go. He was already in love with the State…
He's an alltime, longtime friend of mine and Hillary's. I reappointed him the State police commissioner. Senator Pryor put him on the State police commission.
Oh, I didn't know whether they were back or not, but I knew I'd have to spend a little time with the neighborhood kids anyway, so it was fine. And then a lot of people came up that don't live in the neighborhood that I knew. That was Win…
I'm going to meet him somewhere, wherever he says to meet. I told him I'd either come there, or he could come to me. He's going to decide. He's closing up at 6 p.m. He ends at 6 p.m. on Saturday. He works all day Saturday because it's…
He said, ``You remember at Christmas,'' he said, ``I told you you were grabbing hold of a big hog by the tail.'' He said, ``The problem with grabbing hold of a big hog by the tail is a hog's tail gets smaller and smaller and smaller. You…
December. He's 88; he'll be 89 in December. He had lung cancer like 15 years ago, had a lung taken out, and just rolled right on. He lost his wife a couple of years ago.
Oh, a lot. We were all standing out there at the cemetery today, and all these people showed up we went to kindergarten and first grade with and people that all of us have shared the last 20 or 30 years with. It helped them a lot, I think…
I think they're doing pretty well. You can see they've got a very wide circle of friends here in this State, up in Little Rock and here. I think it will really help them a lot.
They're the best. It's a little early yet. They'll be big in about a month. Four weeks from now we're going to have the watermelon festival here. And I used to come down here every year and run in the 5K run and enter the cow chip throwing…
I don't think we should read too much into that. Let's wait and see what happens next week. There are people in the House that have very strong feelings about the procedures by which matters should be brought to vote and debated, and I…
That he was a wonderful person. That I don't think that any of us will ever know exactly why his life ended the way it did. But today I think that we should all determine not to judge his life by the way it ended solely. He was a terrific…
No. It's just a normal, routine thing that would be done. I don't think anything's going to come out other than what you already know.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the American Legion for the exceptional chance they have given us.
You have an immense responsibility to give something back to your country.
The fact is, we're cutting $250 billion in spending, and a lot of those spending cuts are not popular.
We should be willing to accept this challenge, unwilling to postpone it, and let's intend to win.
We're making progress on all these efforts, but for the centerpiece, the economic plan, the moment of truth is almost at hand.
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