...Some of the actions that took place after repeated scandals included “the Clinton administration shrank the headquarters bureaucracy, modernized management practices, established a department-wide electronic record-keeping system and increased emphasis on primary and outpatient care, which tends to be cheaper and more efficient than hospitalization” (Price, 2014). The electric record keeping system enabled more effective and safer treatment of individual patients no matter which facility they visited. "In addition, the system enabled researchers to study which treatments work best and to discover patterns in veterans' illnesses" (Price, 2014). There was some backlash for the secretary not firing workers quickly enough. Some people felt like they were giving executives opportunity to retire, quit, or even find new jobs without consequence. The VA should go back and validate the data presented in the text. If there is nothing to hide then there should be no issues with having to do so. Any data provided should be validated in the first place so that falsification doesn’t occur. As the newly appointed Secretary, my first priority would be to take control of the situation by acknowledging the issues, addressing it, and assuming responsibility for the organization’s actions. Then I would bring awareness to how the VA is solving the issue. Next, I would investigate the situation to make sure the accusations do not arise again. One final way I would work to reestablish trust is...
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...Running Head: MASTER OF EMOTIONS (EI), BILL CLINTON MASTER OF EMOTIONS (EI) BILL CLINTON Jim Whaler Florida State University Management 605, Section 1 Dr. Jane Bagley November 3, 2011 Abstract Bill Clinton was a President that did not allow anyone to tell him something could not be done. If this President found that something could not be completed, he would go as far as possible and then start on the next agenda on the list. He was a well organized President with people in his cabinet that admired this ability. President Bill Clinton changed the entire ambiance of the country with his command of emotional intelligence. When the country was torn on issues, he would find a way to bring people together and solve the problem, or at least reach a successful consensus. Personal problems riddled the Clinton presidency, but this did not stop the forward successes claimed by this giant of a man. Unemployment was a sore subject, but under President Clinton’s direction the economy grew and women and minorities finally began to be placed in high positions in the federal government. The private sector grew and added a high number of jobs in the economy. Bill Clinton is—just--what the U.S. needed during his presidency. Master of Emotions (EI) Bill Clinton During the years of President Clinton’s administration, emotional intelligence was clearly demonstrated in his daily operations. Leaders throughout the world took notice of the incumbent well educated, well spoken...
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...Critique Paper on President Bill Clinton William Jefferson Clinton was born on August 19, 1946 in the small city of Hope, Arkansas. Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States of America, serving his time in the White House from 1993 – 2001. He was the third youngest president to have taken office, with only Theodore Roosevelt and John Kennedy being younger than him. During the time in office of President Clinton, the U.S experienced a lot of benefits. Clinton also successfully managed to do what no other democrat since Theodore Roosevelt had done either – he was reelected for a second term. In this paper, I will outline what President Clinton achieved successfully during his time in office, and also my opinion on the former president of the United States. Whilst perhaps the most famous thing Bill Clinton is known for is the number of scandals he was involved in, most notably being sued by Paula Jones for sexual harassment, President Clinton was a religious man and had an excellent character. He attended Church from a young age, and stated ‘Religious faith has permitted me to believe in the possibility of becoming a better person every day’. During Clinton’s presidency, the crime rate continued to drop each year he was in office, and at the end of his second term, the crime rate was at a 26 year all-time low. Clinton was granted funding for 100,000 new police officers nationwide, and also famously introduced a ban on assault rifles, and in 2001 statistics...
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...WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON: THE 42ND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED William Jefferson Clinton The forty-Second President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe IV on August 19, 1946 in Hope, Arkansas. Only three months after Clinton’s birth his father was killed in a tragic car accident.[1] His mother later married Roger Clinton when Bill was four years old. He took his mother & step father’s name of Clinton when he was in high school. While in high school Clinton was able to meet with President John F. Kennedy. After this meeting Bill decided to enter “a life of public service”.[2] Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968. He then won a Rhodes scholarship and went to Oxford University.[3] He entered Yale Law School upon his return from Oxford. Clinton received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1973. After this, he returned to Arkansas to enter politics but was defeated in a 1974 election for Congress[4]. Bill married Hillary Rodham in 1975, and their only child Chelsea was born in 1980[5]. Clinton won his next attempt at public office. He was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and was elected Governor in 1978. He lost his campaign for a second term, but won the office again four years later[6]. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defeating “incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 race”. Together, Bill Clinton and his vice...
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...been only two times an impeachment of a president occurred in US history. A third was underway until the president resigned from office. However, the question remains about one of these impeached presidents, did former president Bill Clinton deserve to be impeached. There is clear cut evidence that Bill Clinton had broken an oath while working as president, yet some of these matters are personal business. Diving deeper into this matter, finding facts on the reason for the impeachment, what case was made against Bill Clinton to be put on trial, and the main question on if he deserved to be impeached. Introduction: Impeachment is a sole power given to the House of Representatives by the Constitution and makes the Senate...
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...The Celluloid Presidency Literally millions of dollars are spent calculating, measuring, and predicting presidential approval ratings by campaigns, pollsters, and pundits. All this money and effort is expended so that political elites can get into the heads of the American people. But what if people are much less sophisticated in their political decision making? What if they just react to stimulus they are provided with little to no regard to the quality of that that stimulation? While many factors go into forming the public’s opinion about the President and the job he’s doing what if one the biggest factors is how the President is portrayed in the media. Not the news media, but on the silver screen. The Clinton Presidency has its shares of ups and downs but it also had several movies that featured the President of the United States as a character. Did these film’s change people’s opinions of President Clinton based on how they portrayed their fictional presidents? Observing approval ratings during President Clinton’s tenure in office we can see if a pattern emerges that is consistent with the portrayal of the President in various films during the Nineties, and if that change correlates with box office receipts, which will serve as a measure of viewership. President Clinton took office on January 20, 1993 and like most presidents his approval ratings started out artificially high. Having won the 1992 Presidential campaign with only 42% of the vote his approval rating started...
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...life, Bill Clinton began to become impatient. Clinton had bigger things on his agenda, and he was eager to get started. Clinton was ready to make his high school dream a reality. Clinton announced his intention to seek the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination. In his campaigns outline, a booklet titled A plan for Americas Future, Clinton boldly declared that the future of the nation is in serious jeopardy and that he has suggestions, answers, and solutions to the problems which we face. Clinton had a plan to jump-start our economy in the short-term and a new long-term strategy to turn our countries economy around and restore the “American Dream” for all. While Clinton was governor, he was constantly coming up with new ideas, goals, and campaign tactics, just waiting for this moment to put them to use. Clinton did not waste a minute to start gaining popularity. Clinton possessed excellent campaigning skills. He had the ability to sharply identify issues in his favor. As most everyone does, Clinton had the tendency to give in to public opinion instead of trying to shape it. Shortly there after, Clinton was inaugurated as President of the United States in January 1993, after defeating George Bush senior. At 46, he was the youngest U.S. president since John F Kennedy was elected. He won the presidency with 43% of the popular vote and an Electoral College landslide. It goes to show that all of Clinton’s hard work and dedication paid off. One of the first things that Clinton was...
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...21, 2013 Running Head: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2 Historical Perspective Discuss the historical perspective of the time when each policy was discussed or implemented. What was the context of the problem of the day and the urgency for the policy? The Policies Recent American health care and foreign policies were discussed over a span of two different administrations. President Bill Clinton began addressing the gaping problems in the health care system in 1993 and President Barack Obama continued to seek national health solutions in 2009. President G.H. Bush was considered adept at crafting strong foreign policies. George W. Bush experienced the same sentiment until close to the end of his presidency. Historical perspective of the health care policies President Clinton’s health care policy, also known as the Health Security Act was designed by a task force chaired by his wife Hilary Rodham Clinton Health care reform had been a staple of Clinton’s presidential campaign and he fully intended to deliver on his promise with a package palatable to both parties and to the public. On September 22, 1993 he addressed Congress and unveiled a proposal for employers to be mandated to provide health insurance for all their employees. President Obama directed Congress in 1999 to reform the United States health care system. Their efforts resulted in the Affordable Health Care for...
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...unemployment coincide with a President's political party? In this article, it states the significant difference of the Presidencies among Truman, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton than that of the Presidencies among Kennedy, Reagan and Obama. During the Presidencies of Truman, Nixon, and Clinton, the unemployment rate was falling. During the Presidencies of Kennedy, Reagan, and Obama, the unemployment rate was rising. Within these examples given, there were representatives of both political parties when unemployment was rising and went it was falling. This article goes more heavily into detail about the elections between George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. While Bush was in office, America's economy was in a recession. Approaching election year, the recession ended and the economy was slowly growing but unemployment was still rising. Bush had promised a more steady-paced increase in economic stability, but economists felt it was, "too little, too late." Although the economy was growing at about 2 percent, during previous years the normal economic growth rate for the incumbent parties was about 4.6 percent. President Clinton was elected as President and America's economy began to grow drastically. In result, Clinton was re-elected for a second term, as President of the United States of America. In class, we have studied that the target rate for unemployment is about five percent at full employment, which is what was highlighted as previous data in this article. Given the fact...
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...Bill Clinton Bill Clinton is a Human being that when he meditate think about on race, religion, science, and the nature of the human soul. His mind would roam widely and yet pull together disparate themes into a coherent narratives no other politician of his generation. As ever, Clinton is generous to his friends and ruthless toward his enemies. Legitimate Power: As we speak he is no longer the president of the United States and for the same reason he does not have a legitimate power, but when he was The President of the United States his power base was laid down by the Constitution and by the people that elected him as President, having at that moment Legitimate Power. Referent Power: Bill has the power of interpersonal attraction and today as we speak, the place to hear him think out loud is at the annual Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York on March 30 - April 1, 2012, so for being a good team leader, having charisma, being is fair, doing good in everything that he does and have the power to gather hundreds of heads of state, business man, nonprofit executives, academics, and even Hollywood stars, not just to talk about the world's problems but to do something about them, and base on this, I am confident to say that he has a Reference Power. Expert Power Base: Throughout the articles that I read there were some wise phrases that Bill Clinton said and that call my attention to share it, and from my point of view this make reference to the Expert Power...
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...IS HILLARY CLINTON preparing a run for the White House? Before pondering that timely question, consider another which may matter just as much. Why would any Democrat want to become president in 2016? Mrs Clinton is certainly giving people cause to ask the first question. Before too long, she will need to answer the second. On September 14th she headed to Iowa for the first time since her wounding defeat by Barack Obama in that state’s 2008 Democratic caucus. The former secretary of state, senator and First Lady made her return in a friendly, controlled setting. Accompanied by her husband, Bill, she was the guest star at the Harkin Steak Fry, a combined picnic, fundraiser and clan gathering for fans and friends of Tom Harkin, Iowa’s Democratic senator and an old-school New Deal populist. No national politician heads to Iowa on a whim. Winning Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential contest does not sew up the nomination. But losing Iowa badly (in 2008 Mrs Clinton came third behind Mr Obama and John Edwards, a caddish lawyer) can derail a campaign built round inevitability. Senator Harkin tried to consign that rejection to history, calling the Clintons America’s “comeback couple” and, to Iowa Democrats, “family”. Mr Harkin is retiring after 40 years in Congress. The Clintons were at pains not to overshadow their host. They used his-and-hers speeches to heap praise on Mr Harkin, bash Republicans and urge Democrats to vote in November’s mid-term elections. The lovely setting, a...
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...Corruption in the Government and Politics Abstract Political and government corruption has been a big problem in America for a long time. After careful research and investigating, corruption has a way of splitting a country. Corruption in government and political corrupt seems to go hand-in-hand. In America corruption has been an issue at the highest level of government which starts at the executive level of the Presidency. Over the years corruption has reared its head in other areas of our government from the President throughout Congress and even into our state and local level government. Introduction Throughout the history of the United States of America corruption in government has been an issue. Corruption in government has been an ongoing problem from the beginning of our government. Corruption dates back to the conception of our Constitution of the United States. The constitution was created and delivered in the year 1787. It was the creation of hope that this document would set forth some rules and regulations for our country as well as the citizens of this great nation to follow. It included our rights as citizens and the guarantee of having a government to carry out the will of the people. Government and political corruption was an issue even for the framers of our constitution. Before the final draft of our constitution, the document was revised several times before it was presented. The idea was that by creating the constitution it would...
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...Bill Clinton Should Apologize to America, Says Sanders Senator Bernie Sanders, a Democratic hopeful, said Saturday that former President Bill Clinton should apologize for defending Hillary Clinton’s past use of the term “superpredators” in describing repeat juvenile offenders. Sanders talked about this during a panel discussion on issues facing the African Americans. His campaign was hosted at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He had a busy day of campaigning across the city. Sanders told a crowd of a thousand people, “I think the president owes the American people an apology for trying to defend what’s indefensible.” This specific campaign was designed to reach out to the African Americans ahead of the April 19th primary in New York. Harry...
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...system has a history of being in disarray. Despite the introduction of the managed care, which was intended to help bring costs down, the cost of health care continues to rise. In addition to the spiraling costs of the health care system, millions of Americans still could not afford any form of health care insurance. The question is what can be done about it? The answer is neither easy nor clear cut. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010—commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare, after its major backer, US president Barack Obama—sought to reform a number of aspects of the US health insurance industry, as well as improve the access to and quality of health care services. Keywords Americans with Disabilities Act; Best Practice Protocols; Fee for Service System; Grassroots Activism; Gross Domestic Product; Industrial Democracy; Managed Care; Medicaid; Medicare; Single-payer System; The Pepper Commission; The Rehabilitation Act - Bill 504 Health Care Reform in the U.S. Overview Health care is very much on the minds of Americans. Former presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton made health care her platform and insisted that universal health care is achievable. Although affordable health care for everyone sounds like a positive step forward, the American public was not sure enough of that statement to support her election as president. The American health care system is bound to the insurance industry and has always been...
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... Phase 4 Individual Project Sara Smith HIST101-1303B-10 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Constantinos Scaros Colorado Technical University President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal In 1998 President Bill Clinton was questioned about several allegations that he had harassed and/or had sexual relationships with women that worked under him. He became the first President to ever be involved in questioning as a civil defendant. In the testimony both President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky denied having a sexual relationship, though there were tapes found of conversations between Lewinsky and her co-worker Linda Tripp that suggested otherwise. It seemed that everyone was on the President’s side when it came to the affair charges, even his wife Hilary Clinton. The first lady was quoted as saying that the entire thing was a “vast right-wing conspiracy to destroy her husband.” ("Lewinsky scandal,") On the 17th of August President Clinton took the stand and testified in front of the grand jury to admit his wrong. He then later went on national television to admit to the American people that not only had he been lying for months but that he had indeed had an extramarital affair during his presidency with Monica Lewinsky. In September of that year Starr Jones sent a document nearly 500 pages long to the White House giving four different reasons why the President should be impeached. These included perjury, obstruction...
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