Democrats and Republicans held News Conferences to discuss President Bill Clinton’s Budget Plan. The House Democrats and President Bill Clinton News Conference aired first in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.…
45,698 viewsPresident Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and South Africa President F.W. De Klerk spoke during a ceremony to award the two South African leaders the Liberty Medal for their work in…
20,883 viewsPresident Bill Clinton addressed the nation following his swearing-in during the presidential inauguration ceremony. In his remarks, the president called for Americans to assume greater…
7,225 viewsPresident Bill Clinton spoke in a ceremony in the Rose Garden to announce his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice Byron White. He called his nominee, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “one of…
4,536 viewsPresident Bill Clinton, joined by Jim and Sarah Brady and a number of congressional leaders, signed the long-debated Brady Bill. The Brady Bill created a five-day waiting period for a…
4,020 viewsPresident Bill Clinton and Supreme Court nominee Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke during a ceremony in the White House to mark Judge Ginsburg’s swearing-in as Supreme Court Justice.…
3,964 viewsPresident Bill Clinton announced his economic program in his first address to a joint session of Congress. He proposed a stringent system of tax increases and spending cuts intended to reduce the federal…
3,517 viewsPresident Bill Clinton held a news conference and announced the firing of William Sessions as director of the FBI. He stated that Attorney General Janet Reno reviewed the performance of Mr.…
3,370 views“In Memoriam” 2016 continues with Nobel Laureate, peace activist and holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. He died earlier this year at the age of 87. In April of 1993, Mr. Wiesel spoke at the…
3,442 viewsBands and marchers heralded the inauguration of President Bill Clinton while the new president watched from the reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue.
3,381 viewsPresident Bill Clinton spoke at the annual dinner sponsored by the White House Correspondents Association following a comedy routine by Elayne Boosler. In his remarks, the president made…
3,261 viewsAs a prelude to the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Building, the 130-year-old Statue of Freedom was returned to the top of the Capitol dome after a 5-month…
3,001 viewsThree former presidents joined President Clinton and Vice President Gore in a White House ceremony promoting the North American Free Trade Agreement. President Clinton spoke about the need…
2,797 viewsIsrael and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) signed an agreement which gives the Gaza Strip and Jericho limited self-rule under the PLO. The PLO agrees to recognize Israel as a…
2,120 viewsPresident-elect Gov. Bill Clinton (D-AR) and his family attended the interfaith church service at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church in Washington, DC, on the morning of the presidential…
1,950 viewsThe Oval Office was discussed from an historical perspective. Several clips were shown to depict the changes that the Oval Office has gone through. The Oval Office was first designed at the turn…
1,857 viewsColumnists Karen Feld and Sarah Booth Conroy talked about the events surrounding the Clinton inauguration. They described the energy and optimism of the day and the diversity of the assembled crowd. Scenes of the…
1,692 viewsCameras followed Mr. Jordan as he gave a tour of Monticello, the home of former President Thomas Jefferson, to the Clintons and the Gores. The tour happened on the first morning of the four…
1,655 viewsPresident Clinton spoke to reporters in the Rose Garden on the administration’s role in the events of the previous day, when the members of an armed religious sect in Waco, Texas, perished in a…
1,538 viewsMembers of the Kennedy family, civil rights leaders and the descendants of 1960's civil rights leaders spoke during a Catholic mass commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of former…
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