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Bill Clinton Biography

BORN: August 19, 1946, Hope AR
MARTIAL STATUS: married (Hillary in 1975)    RELIGION: Baptist
EDUCATION:
   Georgetown Univ, BS, FS 1968
   Rhodes Scholar, Oxford Univ., 1968-70
   Yale Univ., JD 1973

POLITICAL & GOV'T POSITIONS:
   1972 George McGovern campaign worker
   1974 Democratic Nominee for US House of Reps.
   1975 Chairman Housing Development Corp.
   1976-78 Arkansas Attorney General
   1978-80 Governor of Arkansas, lost in 1980
   1982-PR Governor of Arkansas, term expires Jan. 1995

   ELECTION RESULTS (GOVERNOR)
   1990 General    Bill Clinton (D)       57%
                   Nelson Sheffield (R)   42%
        Primary    Bill Clinton (D)       55%
                   Tom McRae (D)          39%
   1986 General    Bill Clinton (D)       64%
                   Frank White (R)        36%
        Primary    Bill Clinton (D)       61%
                   Orval E. Faubus (D)    33%
   1984 General    Bill Clinton (D)       63%
                   Woody Freeman (R)      37%
        Primary    Bill Clinton (D)       64%
                   Connie Tucker (D)      24%
   1982 General    Bill Clinton (D)       55%
                   Frank D. White (R)     45%
        Runoff     Bill Clinton (D)       42%
                   Joe Purcell (D)        29%
   1980 General    Frank D. White (R)     52%
                   Bill Clinton (D)       48%
   1978 General    Bill Clinton (D)       63%
                   A. Lynn Lowe           37%
        Primary    Bill Clinton           60%
                   Joe Woodward           22%

NOTE: It appears from 1978-86, term for Gov was 2 years. From
1986,the term was 4 years.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
   1973-76 Professor of Law, Univ. of Ark. at Fayetteville
   1973-76 Attorney, private practice
   1981-82 Attorney, Wright, Lindsay & Jennings, Little Rock

HONORS & AWARDS:
   1988 Distinguished Service Award, Council of Chief State
Officers

MEMBERSHIPS:
   National Governor's Association (Chairman 1987)
   Education Committee of States (Chairman 1987)
   National Association of Attorney Generals

SUMMARY FROM THE 1992 ALMANAC OF AMERICAN POLITICS:  As a
politician, Bill Clinton has a lot going for him: brains, charm,
sure political instincts, a genuine interest in real-world
problems. However, he has had problems governing Arkansas.
Education was Clinton's major focus and the one issue where he
spent the majority of his time. From the beginning, he knew that to
ensure Arkansas of a higher wage economy, it must have a
higher-skill work force.  Implementing this vision has not been
easy for him. In 1983, he pushed through a reform package in the
state legislature that included competency tests for new and
working teachers, a teachers pay raise and a sales tax increase to
pay for it. Teachers' groups vigorously opposed the tests, and the
sales tax hike did not generate enough money for his programs.  In
1987 and 1988, the legislature turned down his tax package twice.
In 1989, it passed his entire education package, except for the
taxes, which meant that teachers got raises of $1000 rather than
$4000. The package included the following changes: choice
provisions allowing parents to choose their children's schools,
even across district lines, provided there is
not a segregationist effect; mandatory kindergarten and mandatory
curriculums for high schools; annual report cards for college
faculty and schools; fines for parents of chronic truants;
revocation of driver's licenses of school dropouts; reenactment of
consolidation incentives for Arkansas's 300-plus school
districts; banning beepers in schools and strict penalizes for
drug sales near schools. In January 1991, the legislature passed a
half-cent sales tax increase, which Clinton signed into law. These
taxes were designed to raise teacher salaries by $4000 over the
next two years, in addition to funding other educational programs.

   By the early 1990's, these reforms had not had their intended
impact on education. Clinton's political opponents blamed him for
low teacher pay, low test scores, neglecting the environment and
raising taxes too much. During the 1990 campaign, his Republican
opponent Nelson Sheffield, campaigned that ten years of Clinton was
enough. In order to disarm voters' suspicions that he was too
interested in national politics, Clinton promised not to run  for
President in 1992. In refuting opponents arguments that he is
stale, he pointed to his latest ideas: new highways, apprenticeship
programs and boot camps for nonviolent offenders. Clinton has shown
that he is energetic and innovative, but can his programs help
Arkansas overcome its natural disadvantages and compete in across
the country and globe.
      During all this turmoil, Clinton has remained a nationally
significant politician. He considered running for President in
1988, but declined  saying it would be unfair to his 7-year old
daughter. He co-chaired the National Governors' Conference task
force on setting specific educational goals in connection of
President Bush's 1989 Education Summit. In 1990, he became head of
the moderate-leaning Democratic Leadership Conference.


                           SENATOR AL GORE

      In his l6 years representing the people of Tennessee, Senator Al
 Gore has been recognized as a national leader confronting America's
 most serious issues:  including the environment, health care, arms
 control and strengthening America's economy by ensuring that American
 companies are competitive in the high technologies that mean jobs.

      An outspoken advocate for the environment who has gained
 international recognition for his leadership, Gore served as Chairman
 of the U.S. Senate delegation to the Earth Summit.  He is the author
 of groundbreaking legislation and of a nationally best- selling book,
 Earth in the Balance:  Ecology and the Human Spirit, which outlines
 an innovative plan of action to confront the global environmental
 crisis.

      In what has been described as the single most important step
 America can take to become more competitive in the international
 marketplace, the high performance computing act is legislation Gore
 crafted and steered to passage that is creating the first national
 high-speed computer network--an "information superhighway,"  linking
 America's most powerful computers with schools and research centers.
 He also is the author of legislation to develop and disseminate new
 technologies to improve manufacturing and create jobs, improve health
 care and education, and to protect the environment.

      Gore has led the effort to provide real tax relief for middle
 income families, introducing the Gore-Downey Working Family Tax
 Relief Act.  And, to protect American children, Gore has led
 investigations into the mislabeling of food and toys hazardous to
 children and the prevalence of inadequate nutrition.

      Gore's health care record includes groundbreaking legislation
 that has created the first national organ donor network to match
 organ donors and recipients.  It is Gore's legislation that
 strengthened the warning labels on cigarettes and that for the first
 time placed warning labels on alcoholic beverages, to help warn
 pregnant women of the dangers of drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

      On arms control issues, Gore is recognized as a leading
 Congressional expert with his proposals now serving as the basis for
 key arms control agreements.  Gore voted to authorize the use of
 force in the war against Iraq and was the first in Congress to call
 on the Bush-Quayle Administration to recognize and respond to the
 plight of the Kurds and the Shiites after the war ended.

      Gore was born March 31, 1948.  After graduating from Harvard, he
 served in Vietnam with the U.S. Army.  He worked as a reporter and
 editorial writer for The Tennessean in Nashville before being elected
 to Congress in 1976.  He was elected to the Senate in 1984.  He is
 married to the former Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Atcheson and they have
 four children Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III.
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