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President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton

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BILL CLINTON


  • First president born in Arkansas.
  • First president to be born after World War II
  • First president to be a Rhodes Scholar.
  • First president whose inauguration was streamed on the internet.
  • First president with an official White House website
  • First president to appoint an African-American man to be Secretary of Commerce (Ron Brown).
  • First president to appoint a Jewish woman (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) to the Supreme Court.
  • First president to appoint a woman as Secretary of Energy (Hazel O'Leary).
  • First president to appoint a woman as Attorney General (Janet Reno).
  • First president to host and perform in a jazz festival while in office.
  • First president to appoint an African-American man to be Director of the CDC (David Satcher).
  • First president to appoint an African-American woman to be Surgeon General (Joycelyn Elders).
  • First president to appoint an African-American man to be Surgeon General (David Satcher).
  • First president to visit Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Denmark, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, post-apartheid South Africa, Botswana, Senegal, Slovenia, the Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Oman, Tanzania, Brunei, as well as reunited Vietnam while in office.
  • First president to visit and address the Palestinian National Authority while in office.
  • First president to send an email.
    • First president to appoint an Asian-American to a Cabinet post (Norman Mineta).
  • First president to establish GPS modernization.
  • First president to be married to a member of Congress