Claim: "It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt."
Fact-check: Bill Clinton touts fiscal record as president during campaign stop in New Jersey
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Bill Wichert
Date published: 2012-06-08T00:00:00