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  Clinton, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clinton is a census-designated place and village located on south Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington.
Clinton is the western terminus of the Whidbey Island (Clinton)-to-Mukilteo Washington State Ferries route.
It is served by Washington State Route 525 and several major county roads.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clinton,_Washington   (601 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Bill Clinton bypass surgery successful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clinton was said to be awake, though still using a breathing tube and unable to speak, at the time of a late afternoon press conference by his surgical team.
Clinton is expected to leave the hospital within four to five days and be fully back to normal within three months.
Clinton has jogged regularly since college but has acknowledged to friends that he ran 3 to 5 miles a few times a week primarily so he could feel free to eat what he wanted.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-09-05-clinton-bypass_x.htm   (1049 words)

  
 Washington Memo: Clinton Tailors Legacy but Kosovo Isn't Fabric
Clinton promised that the American military would be out of Bosnia in a year; troops have been there three and a half years, and they are not about to leave soon.
For Clinton, the war provided a welcome distraction from his impeachment trial, a chance to take the offensive as commander in chief after having been on the defensive so long as an admitted philanderer and accused of perjury.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken last week, while peace talks were going on, found the country roughly evenly divided on whether it had been wise for the United States to get involved in Kosovo.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/061099kosovo-clinton-assess.html   (1094 words)

  
 Not the Mrs. Clinton Washington Thought It Knew [Gag Alert]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clinton had a reputation within some Washington circles as aloof and imperious, a reputation that — no matter how unfair her friends and advisers said it was — followed her right into the Senate after her election.
Clinton has surprised many of her colleagues with a series of personal gestures that have served not only to soften her image but also to help her fit into the clubby world of the Senate, where schmoozing and one-on-one politics go a long way.
Clinton has done far more than just show up, attempting to stroke her colleagues in ways that are reminiscent of her husband's famously chummy style of politicking.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/614770/posts   (2729 words)

  
 "Monkey Do" by Bruce Reed
Clinton pledged to move beyond "the brain-dead politics of both parties" and challenged Congress that "responsibility is for everybody, and it begins here in the nation's capital." The American people agreed, and gave the two reform-minded candidates---Clinton and Perot---62 percent of the vote on Election Day.
But Clinton and Democratic leaders also learned the hard way that, although their fortunes were linked, their interests were not always the same.
What Clinton learned, and Bush needs to, is that the president's job is to lead the country, not to lead his party in Congress.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2001/0106.reed.html   (3462 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Jones v. Clinton Special Report
Paula Corbin Jones filed suit in 1994, alleging that Bill Clinton propositioned her and exposed himself to her in a Little Rock hotel room three years earlier, when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a low-level state employee.
Even if Clinton did make a crude proposition, Wright wrote that it would not constitute sexual assault and that there was no proof Jones was emotionally afflicted or punished in the workplace for rebuffing him.
Clinton's videotaped deposition on Jan. 17 was the first time a sitting president was interrogated as a defendant in a court case.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/pjones.htm   (504 words)

  
 TAP: Web Feature: Times Warp. by Michael Tomasky. October 23, 2003.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Clinton then went on to say that Democrats should "pocket some of the gains" he made by reminding voters that the Democrats had moved to the center on welfare reform and fiscal responsibility.
Maybe it was just an innocent misreading -- Bill Clinton is, after all, so fixed in the mind of mainstream journalism as the centrist tiger and the scourge of the liberal left that maybe Lambro just couldn't help reading it through that lens, seeing what he wanted and expected to see.
Positioning Clinton's remarks as an attack on Dean, when they in fact were not, may mean that the Republicans are suddenly worried about Dean.
www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/10/tomasky-m-10-23.html   (910 words)

  
 Clinton-Gore Administration Accomplishments for Washington
Washington will receive $15.5 million in Work-Study funding in 1999 to help Washington students work their way through college.
Washington will receive $25.7 million in 1999 to help 15,240 of Washington's dislocated workers get the training and reemployment services they need to return to work as quickly as possible.
In Washington in 1996, 97% of two-year olds received the vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis; 93% received the vaccine for polio; 91% received the vaccine for measles, and 93% received the vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria causing a form of meningitis.
clinton2.nara.gov /WH/Accomplishments/states/Washington.html   (2429 words)

  
 Washington Times: Clinton says Bush is a copy of him [Free Republic]
Clinton said the Texas governor "seems to have discarded some of the harsher aspects of the Republican revolution of the last five years," particularly on immigration.
Clinton angered the vice president by remarking that he was concerned about the stumbling start of Mr.
Clinton said that he would make another tour of poor communities, beginning in Newark, N.J. He said he would challenge the owners of professional sports franchises to follow the example of the owners of the New Jersey Nets basketball team, who invest 35 percent of the team's profits in projects there.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37858b5d45a4.htm   (3316 words)

  
 Washington
Washington's Families Reap Benefits of Deficit Reduction: Public debt is on track to be $2.4 trillion lower in 2000 than was projected in 1993.
Washington received $25.7 million in 1999 to help 15,240 dislocated workers get the training and reemployment services they need to return to work as quickly as possible.
In Washington in 1998, 94% of two-year olds received the vaccines for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis; 92% received the vaccine for polio; 90% received the vaccine for measles, and 95% received the vaccine for Haemophilus influenzae B, the bacteria causing a form of meningitis.
clinton4.nara.gov /WH/Accomplishments/states/Washington.html   (2596 words)

  
 William J. Clinton Foundation "Washington D.C. Youth Summit, 2003"
Clinton's appearance was sponsored by his William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, based in New York City, and was hosted by Georgetown, where he got his undergraduate degree in 1968.
One was Walter Callejas, 21, who came to Washington from El Salvador with his family when he was 3 and spent the next 15 years in and out of school and on the edge of criminality.
And Clinton announced that the foundation would give $40,000 grants to several groups that brought students -- Advocates for Youth, College Summit, Latin America Youth Center and Youth Vote -- to aid their work.
www.clintonfoundation.org /021203-nr-cf-ld-wi-wjc-attends-dc-youth-summit.htm   (536 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / Washington Post: Clinton obsessed with Kosmet
"Now, Clinton sees the crisis in the Balkans as something a lot wider, as a decisive moment for his office" and as a seal the American foreign policy should leave for the future generations as an important event at the end of this century, explains the paper.
Clinton's statements and attempts to hide the real causes of aggression on FR Yugoslavia are being deeply analyzed in America.
Clinton "makes great effort to expand the reasons for the intervention in order to justify engagement in the crisis over which we do not have full control and that the American public deeply doubts".
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-04/22/11178.html   (449 words)

  
 George Washington Papers: Time Line: The American Revolution - 1776
Washington writes Congress with the news of this and of his plans for detaching regiments of the Army in Cambridge to New York under Brigadier General John Sullivan, with the remainder of the Army to follow.
Washington, angry at the continued communication with the enemy, asks the Committee if the evidence about them does not suggest that the former Colonies and Great Britain are now at war.
July 14, the Howe brothers attempt to contact Washington to open negotiations, but Washington refuses their letter which is addressed to "George Washington, Esq., etc., etc.," a form of address appropriate for a private gentleman rather than for the commander of an army.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/gwhtml/1776.html   (1469 words)

  
 USIS Washington File: CLINTON TO PRESS FOR INTERNATIONAL LABOR STANDARDS
Washington -- President Clinton will urge a gathering of the world's labor ministers next week to increase worker protection as a key step to bolster growth and trade, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexis Herman said.
Herman said Clinton's commitment to improving workers' protection is reflected in his decision to become the first U.S. president to address the ILO, which was founded in 1944.
The labor secretary said the Clinton administration wants to put "a human face" on the global economy, which she said means focusing on the labor dimension.
usembassy-australia.state.gov /hyper/WF990609/epf304.htm   (568 words)

  
 Clinton Picks Washington Outsider as Chief of Staff
WASHINGTON (AP) - With his second-term shakeup gaining speed, President Clinton tapped soft-spoken Washington outsider Erskine Bowles to be chief of staff and promised to learn from past presidents who stumbled after re-election.
The loss of Panetta, a veteran congressman, will cost Clinton another legislative warrior as he prepares for battle with the Republican Congress; Capitol Hill veterans George Stephanopoulos and Rahm Emanuel also are leaving.
Aides say Clinton is unhappy with her, and has not decided her fate.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/110996/chief.htm   (881 words)

  
 CNN.com - Clintons depart Washington after emotional farewell ceremony - January 20, 2001
Clinton attended a final goodbye ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland before he was to fly to New York.
Clinton -- accompanied by daughter Chelsea and former first lady Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- boarded a U.S. government aircraft, which was not referred to as Air Force One, a name bestowed on whichever plane is carrying a president.
Clinton is not expected to lead a reclusive life as a former commander-in-chief.
archives.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/20/clinton.departs   (832 words)

  
 Clinton Community School District, Clinton, Iowa - Washington Middle School General Information
Washington Middle School facilities include a large classic auditorium, two gymnasiums, and elevator to address the needs of students and community members.
The teachers at Washington maintain high expectations for students and expect students to accept responsibility for their own education and decisions.
Washington is a wonderful middle school and community members are invited to visit the school at any time to see what students are learning.
www.clinton.k12.ia.us /washington_info.html   (907 words)

  
 Townhall.com :: Columns :: Clinton's criticism by Robert Novak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton, who has refrained from publicly second-guessing the 2004 presidential election, in private sharply criticizes John Kerry's aides and particularly campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill.
Former Clinton operatives who joined the Kerry campaign three months before the election clashed repeatedly with Cahill on tactics and strategy.
The elation by a partner in the powerful Washington lawyer-lobbyist firm of Covington and Burling that he soon would be associated with retiring Republican Sen. Don Nickles of Oklahoma almost killed the deal.
www.townhall.com /columnists/robertnovak/rn20041225.shtml   (731 words)

  
 frontline: the choice 2004: leadership: rating the presidents - washington to clinton | PBS
This passage is from "Rating the Presidents: Washington to Clinton," by Arthur M. Schlesinger.
Of national crises, war is the most fateful, and all the top ten save Jefferson were involved in war either before or during their presidencies.
Clinton brings to the bar of history a rare combination of talents and infirmities.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/leadership/schlesinger.html   (1719 words)

  
 Harry Potter and Bill Clinton - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - June 30, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bill Clinton is a compulsive abuser and user of women.
Clinton's predations who have chosen not to publicly reveal themselves, and many more still who willingly participated.
Clinton's book should have been titled "My Lie." All of that stuff about Hillary being mad, making him sleep on the couch, going to marriage counselors for a year, yada yada, is all made up.
www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20040629-090643-9704r.htm   (791 words)

  
 The Consortium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The lengthy Style-section article argued that the Washington "insiders" were angrier than most Americans because Clinton had soiled "their home" and had violated a sort of Washington tribal code by dishonoring the White House.
By contrast, Quinn viewed Washington's clan of insiders as some national treasure of principle, probity and purity, a meritocracy responsible for the nation's moral welfare.
To Quinn, Clinton is just the classic case of a boorish guest who has overstayed his welcome and doesn't have the sense to pack his bags.
www.consortiumnews.com /1990s/consor39.html   (1738 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Clinton takes Washington?
The winner was Abraham Lincoln, with 15 percent of the vote — while George Washington came in 7th with only 7 percent.
Washington's presiding over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia very probably kept the 13 free, sovereign and independent states from Balkanizing.
Repeated calls to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the Department of Justice in Washington have evoked similar no-comments about the 3-year-old criminal investigation of President Clinton, which has apparently been put in the inactive pile.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32854   (769 words)

  
 The Clinton Crime Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bill Clinton and Al Gore met with known criminals who either gave large amounts of money to the Democrats or were brought in by those giving huge sums of money to the Democrats.
At the time Clinton met with Wang, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Customs Service were wrapping up an investigation which caught Wang's company smuggling at least $4 million worth of 2,000 illegal AK-47 assault weapons destined for gang members in California.
The diaries of the Dick Morris' call girl, Sherry Rowlands, noted that Mr Morris described Mrs Clinton as the prime mover in the scandal when confidential FBI personnel files on leading Republicans were taken to the White House and scrutinised by political fixers.
www.jeremiahproject.com /prophecy/clintcrimefamily.html   (4506 words)

  
 Life's back to normal for Clinton, but Washington politics remain tense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
There were angry demonstrators at Clinton's stops in Tucson, Ariz., San Francisco and Los Angeles, with signs recalling allegations of sexual misconduct against him.
Many signs branded Clinton a rapist, referring to accusations by Juanita Broaddrick that Clinton sexually assaulted her 21 years ago.
Introducing Clinton in San Francisco, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said that Rep. Jim Rogan, R-Calif., one the 13 House prosecutors in the president's impeachment trial, is considering a run against Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
www.freep.com /news/nw/qclint28.htm   (683 words)

  
 CyberAlert -- 04/23/1997  --  Larry King's Clinton Spin; Washington Post Labeling
ABC finds that Clinton knows how to fill the need for sympathy; Whitewater grand jury extended but viewers have no idea why.
King and McDougal spent much time on McDougal's claim that Bill Clinton did indeed attend a meeting where he urged David Hale to get an illegal $300,000 SBA loan for Susan McDougal, and speculating as to why Susan McDougal refuses to say whether Bill Clinton was truthful when he testified at her trial.
The Washington Post is again presenting the political teams as the conservatives versus the nonpartisans.
secure.mediaresearch.org /news/cyberalert/1997/cyb19970423.html   (1264 words)

  
 The Washington Times: Clinton urges Africans to boost troops.(Nation)@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Washington Times; 4/2/1998; Strobel, Warren P. THIES, Senegal - President Clinton said yesterday that Africans should take the lead in policing their own continent, as he defended a U.S. plan to enhance the ability of African militaries to respond to future crises.
Clinton watched as Senegalese soldiers being trained by the U.S. Army manned a mock sandbag checkpoint like those found in crisis zones the world over.
The president then tried to allay the concern of some African leaders that the training program, part of the African...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:58334749&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (192 words)

  
 RTE News - Taoiseach and northern leaders to meet Clinton in Washington
The Taoiseach and party leaders from Northern Ireland are due to meet President Clinton in Washington later this evening.
Mr Adams was speaking in Washington on the eve of planned meetings between the North's political leaders and President Clinton.
Despite his statement Gerry Adams and David Trimble are expected to continue face to face dialogue in Washington later today, although a meeting between the two men has not yet been officially scheduled.
www.rte.ie /news/1999/0317/adams.html   (369 words)

  
 "The Mendacity Index" by Washington Monthly Staff
In a 1991 interview with The Washington Post, Clinton said: "The rule was there was no graduate deferment, but you got to finish the term you were in.
At the start of the 1996 election season, Clinton commented, "Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses." There were no Iowa caucuses when Clinton was a boy.
During a press conference on Jan. 26, 1998, Clinton declared, "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." But Clinton had, indeed, received oral sex from Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern at the time.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2003/0309.mendacity-index   (1520 words)

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