Bill Clinton Impeach

When the United States of America entered the nineties, President William H. T. Bush was in office. President Bush was the 42nd president of the United States and he took office in 1989 and ended his presidency in 1993. In 1990, President Bush reversed his campaign pledge "Read My Lips, No New Taxes" by agreeing to raise taxes in order to lower the federal deficit. In the same year Bush changed his campaign pledge to raise taxes, he signed the Disability Act of 1990. In the presidential running of 1992, Bill Clinton defeated William H. T Bush to become the 42nd president of the United States. Early in his presidency, Clinton proposed the idea to lift the ban of gay men or women that were banned from the military so he proposed the idea of …show more content…
This act was passed to keep the world safe because it made gun business produce a background check on anyone wanting to produce a gun at the time. In 1975, United States placed a trade embargo with Vietnam, but in 1994 Clinton decided to lift the embargo. In 1996, Clinton was reelected to serve his second term. Only two years later, Clinton was accused to having an affair Monica Lewinsky but he denied it at first. In 1998, there was talk of Clinton being impeached would have made him only the second president to be impeached behind Andrew Johnson. Although Clinton and Johnson were not technically fully impeached by both houses but for both cases the House of Representatives impeached the two. The senate read the articles of impeachment for both Clinton and Johnson and dedicided that they should be acquitted because there was not enough evidence there to decide that they were guilty. Another president that was almost impeached was Nixon but he resigned before his was impeached and eventually passed away in …show more content…
. In 1993, Alabama got their revenge and beat Miami in the National Championship that was held in the same city Miami beat them in the first meeting. Nolan Ryan became the MLB, major league baseball holder for most no-hitters when he recorded his sixth one on June 11, 1990. Ryan went on and recorded his seventh a year later to extend to record. Evander Holyfield was the greatest boxer in his weight class and he also won a championship just like the Hurricanes did. Holyfield beat James Douglas to win the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship. Major League Baseball went on strike in 1994, which became the first time in ninety years that the season ended before a winner could have been chosen from the World Series. Lou Gehrig held the record for most consecutive games played for fifty-three years but in 1995 a man named Cal Ripken Jr. surpassed Gehrig’s record of or 2,130. Ripken went on to play in 2,632 games when he played his last game in 1998. Cal Ripken was not the only person to have record breaking season. Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris's single-season home run record of sixty-one. The 1998 National Championship became the eighth split champion when the National College Athletic Association decided a shared championship between Michigan and Nebraska. In 1997, Tiger Woods his first major championship, The Masters, which was won by and astounding

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