He was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second term. As part of a plan to celebrate the millennium in 2000, Clinton called for a great national initiative to end racial discrimination. President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name. After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until he defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race.
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