On January 20, 1993, Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States — the first Democrat elected to the office in 12 years — and ushered in a new era shaped by hope, opportunity, and democratic renewal. In his inaugural address, he called on the nation to rise together: “Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world, but the engine of our own renewal.” | Clinton Presidential Center

Bill Clinton, who was born on this day in 1946, was the 42nd president of the United States, and oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion but his second term in the White House was dominated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. | Biography