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Subject: Clinton's first term - some highlights.
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:51:29 GMT
1993 
January, 1993 
· 1/21/93 - The Clinton promise to introduce his legislative program
the day after his inauguration is broken 
February, 1993 
· 2/9/93 - Clinton halts drug testing for the White House staff 
· 2/17/93 - Clinton announces economic plan which includes $359
billion in increased taxes, breaking his promise to lower
taxes on the middle class 
· 2/24/93 - "It its first major Supreme County case, the Clinton
administration is preparing to defend a Haitian refugee policy
[of returning refugees to Haiti] that the president had called illegal
during the campaign." - USA Today
April, 1993 
· 4/8/93 - Clinton proposes a new 12.5% gross royalty tax on mining 
· 4/29/93 - 100 day mark. Clinton has failed to initiate even one of
the programs he promised 
· 4/29/93 - Clinton nominates Lani Guinier as assistant attorney
general for civil rights, who strongly supported racial quotas,
and advocated changing the electoral process to favor minorities. 
May, 1993 
· 5/18/93 - Clinton gets a $200 hair cut from Cristophe on Air Force
One, shutting down two runways at Los Angeles
International Airport for an hour, costing airlines an estimated
$76,000 
· 5/19/93 - White House fires seven long-term travel office employees
and hires Clinton's cousin Catherine Cornelius. This
begins "Travelgate." 
· 5/25/93 - Pay and benefits are reinstated for five of the seven
employees fired. All five are rehired to other government
jobs. White House Press Secretary George Stephenopolous denies that
employees were ever fired. 
July, 1993 
· 7/19/93 - Clinton announces his "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy
regarding gays in the military.
August, 1993 
· 8/4/93 through 8/23/93 - 3 State Department officials resign in
protest of Clinton's policy toward Bosnia 
· 8/5/93 - Without a single Republican vote, House and Senate
Democrats pass Clinton's budget proposal for the largest tax
increase in American history. 
· 8/10/93 - Clinton signs largest tax increase in history, raising
taxes by almost $280 billion over 5 years. 
September, 1993 
· 9/17/93 - Justice Department files a brief with the Supreme Court
advocating a looser standard of child pornography in the
Knox pornography case. (See 11/4/93) 
· Clinton unveils his government-run health care system which adds 108
new bureaucracies.
October, 1993 
· 10/3/93 - Eighteen U.S. soldiers killed and 78 wounded in an attack
in Somalia after the Defense Department denies
request to send armored vehicles and Blackhawk helicopters for backup.
· 10/5/93 - Clinton tells an AARP convention that "Today, Medicare and
Medicaid are going up three times the rate of
inflation. We propose to let it go up at two times the rate of
inflation. This is not a Medicaid or Medicare cut." 
· 10/6/93 - Clinton's economist, Laura Tyson, admits "There are some
aspects of the [Clinton health] plan that discourage
employment." 
· 10/11/93 - USS Harlan turned back by a gang of club-wielding thugs
at Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
November, 1993 
· 11/4/93 - The Senate passes an amendment, 100-0, criticizing the
Clinton administration's proposed loosening of child
pornography laws.
December, 1993 
· 12/15/93 - Taking the fall for Clinton's lack of a coherent foreign
policy, Defense Secretary Les Aspin resigns after the fatal
decision to deny tank support to troops in Somalia.
1994 
January, 1994 
· 1/25/94 - Clinton waves pen, vowing to veto anything less than
universal health coverage (see 2/8/94) 
· 1/27/94 - After repeated conflicts with Attorney General Janet Reno
due to differences in "management styles," Deputy
Attorney General Philip Heymann resigns.
February, 1994 
· 2/2/94 - The democrat controlled House defeats Clinton-backed motion
to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level
position. 
· 2/3/94 - Clinton lifts Vietnam trade embargo. 
· 2/8/94 - Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the Clintons' health
plan would increase the deficit by $74 billion rather
than decrease it by $59 billion as the Clintons had promised.
March, 1994 
· 3/5/94 - Criticized for interfering in the Whitewater investigation,
White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum resigns. 
· 3/14/95 - Under investigation for overbilling clients, mail fraud
and tax evasion, Associate Attorney General Webster
Hubbell resigns (see 12/6/94). 
· 3/18/94 - Press questions Hillary Clinton's $100,000 profit in
cattle futures. 
· 3/21/94 - A U.S. District Court judge rules that Clinton's Northwest
Forest Plan was drafted in violation of open meeting
laws. 
· 3/22/94 - David Hale, who has implicated Clinton in a
Whitewater-related dispute, pleads guilty to conspiracy and mail
fraud. 
April, 1994 
· 4/11/94 - The Clintons pay $14,615 in back taxes owed from 1980
federal and Arkansas tax returns.
May, 1994 
· 5/26/94 - White House administrator David Watkins resigns after
using the presidential helicopter, at a cost to taxpayers of
$13,000, for a golf outing. 
· 5/26/94 - Clinton flip-flops on China policy and delinks "most
favored nation" trade status from human rights.
June, 1994 
· 6/12/94 - Clinton unveils welfare "reform," which advocates spending
more money, contains weak work requirements and
does not deal with the problem of illegitimacy (see 10/26/95). 
· 6/28/94 - Clinton, for the first time in the history of the
Presidency, sets up a legal defense fund to solicit funds to cover his
legal fees related to the Whitewater investigation and sexual
harassment lawsuit.
July, 1994 
· 7/21/94 - Democrat congressional leaders travel to the White House
to tell Clinton his health care plan is dead. 
· 7/24/94 - Over a thousand people protest Hillary Clinton's
government-run health care plan in Seattle at a Health Security
Express rally, causing one Democrat activist to comment, "The rally
was depressing." 
· 7/25/94 - Federal judge orders trial to determine if Hillary
Clinton's health care task force illegally operated in secret (see
12/21/94). 
August, 1994 
· 8/5/94 - Clinton's pollster advises Democrat candidates to distance
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