Characteristics Of President Bill Clinton

his avoidance of military service during the Vietnam war. Despite these attempts of the press on the qualifications of Bill Clinton, he became the Democratic nominee and selected Albert Gore as his vice president. Clinton was inaugurated in January 1993 at the age of 46, this made him the third-youngest president in history up to that time. President Clinton defeated the incumbent, President George H.W. Bush with 370 of the 438 electoral votes leaving just 168 for George H.W. Clinton won 43 percent of the popular vote against Bush’s 37.5 and a third party candidate, Ross Perot, who captured just short of 19 percent of the popular vote.

tration before dying of a stroke at the age of 56. Aspin served as a Democratic representative for 22 years