Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton Welcomed as First-Ever U.N. Envoy to Haiti
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton yesterday became the first-ever special envoy to Haiti, where his popularity was evident.

Bill Clinton Praises Obama as His Cabinet Rounds into Shape
Obama picks national security team and fills other posts, with the media continually questioning his selection of former rival Hillary Clinton for secretary of state.

Bill Clinton’s On Air Slip-Up
During a radio interview in Philadelphia, Bill Clinton said something that wasn’t supposed to be heard over the airwaves.

Jesse Jackson’s Not Mad at Bill Clinton over Comments
Comments by Bill Clinton comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson were labeled by some as racist. Jackson’s reaction? Stop overreacting.

Clinton Undergoes Surgery for Condition That's "No Big Deal"
Former President Bill Clinton will undergo surgery Thursday morning for a minor operation to resolve complications from his quadruple bypass surgery last September.

President Bill Clinton Biography
Biography, historical facts and important information on the life history of Bill Clinton, the renowned President of US.

The Bill Clinton Show?
Rumors are again surfacing that Bill Clinton is being courted by the major networks to host his own talk show.

Bill Clinton Closes Book Deal
After a few weeks of speculation about when the deal would go down, details of Bill Clinton's deal to publish his memoirs have finally emerged.

Harlem: Bill Clinton Jam Overlooks Legend
Bill Clinton's impromptu jam session in Harlem yesterday drew a crowd, and the ire of one of Harlem's most respected musical legends.

The Clintons: Trimming Willy
Former President Bill Clinton was surprised to see that one of his personal friends had delivered a gift that carried some weight: a treadmill.

Marc Rich: Clinton Op-ed Further Stirs Controversy
Rather than answers, many who have read the ex-president's explanation for his pardon of Marc Rich have been left with more questions.

Clintons Abandoned by Hollywood Friends
After spending the past 8 years praising the Clintons and seeking free PR via their involvement with the couple, Hollywood stars are now keeping mum.

All the Pretty Horses a Bill Clinton Favorite
Despite rumors, the filming of the new movie went smoothly and is drawing great interest, including a screening request from Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton Discloses Donors to Clear Hillary's Path to Obama Cabinet Job
Bill Clinton is reported to have sent Barack Obama's team a list of more than 200,000 donors to his aid foundation to help clear the way for Hillary Clinton to take over as US secretary of state

Bill Clinton Will Hold First Rally for Barack Obama
Bill Clinton will officially set aside wounded feelings as he heads to Florida to hold his first rally for Barack Obama

Bill Clinton Holds First Rally for Obama But Doubts Persist About Commitment
Former president set to speak at rallies in attempt to encourage more people to register to vote

Bill Clinton Addresses Victims' Families on Eve of 9/11 Anniversary
The former president called for unity to return to the United States

The Big Dog Can Still Hunt
Jonathan Freedland: Bill Clinton did brilliantly what other Democrats had failed to do - make the case for President Barack Obama

US Election: Bill Clinton to Support Obama Despite Strained Relationship
Former president will endorse Obama, but relations with Democratic candidate's campaign team are brittle

Bill and Barack Put the Rows Behind Them
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are on speaking terms once more, the Obama campaign reports

US Elections: Bill and Barack Smooth Out Their Differences
Those who feared Bill Clinton wanted no part of the unity accompanying his wife's appearance with Barack Obama can now relax

Women Linked to Clinton Sex Scandals Launch Website
Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones have decided to join forces and reminisce about the 1990s scandals in which they played central roles

Clinton's Nemeses Return With Rehashed Stories of Sexploits
Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones join forces to stick boot in again with internet video clips to shame ex-president

How Former President's Help Became a Hindrance for Hillary
Bill Clinton's gaffes ended up overshadowing the tireless campaigning he did on behalf of his wife

Backwoods Bill Comes Back Again
Clinton magic survives in small-town PennsylvaniaEx-president shrugs off campaign liability claims

Obama says its Time to Confront Bill Clinton over Inaccurate Statements
Democrat Barack Obama says he will confront former President Bill Clinton over inaccurate statements made by the latter while supporting his wife, Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy.

Obama Confronts Bill Clinton Over Campaign Attacks
Barack Obama gambled today on a full frontal challenge to Democratic icon Bill Clinton, previously thought to be untouchable because of his status as former president and the most popular figure in the party.

Gloves Come Off in Democratic Campaign As Obama Hits Back at Bill Clinton's Attacks
Ex-president's remarks anger black supporters· Team claims couple are playing 'good cop, bad cop'

Bill Clinton Joins Hillary Campaign
Slick Willie is back. Former president Bill Clinton, forced into the political shadows by his wife Hillary's presidential campaign, is being let off the leash this week.

Clintons Revel in Role Reversal on Campaign Trail
In the long phony war of the 2008 US elections there have been thousands of articles written about Hillary Clinton's bid to become the first woman president. Much less notice has been paid to the efforts being made quietly and behind the scenes for Bill Clinton to become the first First Husband in American history.

The Clintons’ Indian Connection
During the Clintons’ many visits to India, they have made themselves hugely popular to Indians. Now, one of the Clintons’ Indian connections is threatening to rock Hillary’s presidential campaign boat.

Bill Backs Hillary With Youtube Tribute
Hillary Clinton has deployed her prime asset in the race for the White House, enlisting Bill Clinton for a video testimonial to her leadership.

Clinton Backs Violation of Aids Drug Patents
Bill Clinton has backed moves by several developing countries to break Aids drugs patents held by US pharmaceutical companies to reduce the huge cost of tacking the disease.

Clinton to Join World Leaders at Yeltsin's Funeral
The former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush senior will be among a host of world leaders expected to attend the funeral in Moscow tomorrow of Boris Yeltsin, the Kremlin announced this morning.

Money Talks for Bill Clinton As He Pockets £20m in Speaking Fees
The man who 'never had a nickel' in the White House is now top earner on the chat circuit.

Clinton Launches Low-cost Aids Drugs
At least 100,000 HIV-positive children are to receive low-cost drugs for life, in an initiative announced today by the former US president Bill Clinton.

Angry Clinton Defends Record on Fighting Al-qaida
Former US president Bill Clinton reacted angrily in a television interview yesterday to recent criticism of his failure to capture Osama bin Laden, accusing 'President Bush's neocons' of failing to act until after the attacks of September 11 2001.

Left Builds Power Base in the Blogosphere
Bill Clinton supports an army of bloggers growing in strength and confidence.

Clinton Aides Slam 9/11 Drama
A group of Bill Clinton's former aides have labelled a US television mini-series about the September 11 attacks 'terribly wrong', calling for it to be corrected or pulled from the schedule. By Julia Day.

Clinton Celebrates 60 Again - to Raise $2.5m
Since leaving the White House in 2001 at the age of 55 Bill Clinton has turned his premature retirement into a global charitable business.

Circumcision May Be the Answer to Aids, Says Clinton
Bill Clinton called for the world to prepare to tackle the cultural taboos surrounding circumcision yesterday if, as many expect, trials show that it protects men and the women they sleep with from Aids.

David Cameron is Surfing an Ebb Tide in His Stance on Europe
A few years ago, I wrote a political novel in which Britain (under a stumbling Conservative government) fell out of Europe and joined Bill Clinton's own great North American free trade...By Peter Preston

Oprah Winfrey Book Deal Tops Clinton's $12m
Move over, Bill Clinton, your moment in the spotlight has ended. The former president's record advance of $12m (£6.4m) for his autobiography has been eclipsed by the chatshow host Oprah Winfrey, who has signed a deal with the publisher Simon & Schuster for a book about keeping weight under control.

US Signals Shift to Diplomacy and Working With Allies
· Policy of pre-emptive action remains central · Bush revolution over, says former Clinton official.

Becoming An Informed Voter
As background to the players, you need to know that huge, the world's largest, oil reserves were discovered in Russia. Every major oil player, arms merchant and crook that could muscle their percentage of this find... did. That includes some big names in the Democratic Party. Ted Kennedy, Sandy Berger, Teddy's wife Victoria, Don Fowler (National Democratic Committee Chairman), Bill Clinton and Al Gore

Clinton Urges Israel to Resume Peace Talks
The former US president Bill Clinton has urged Israel to return to negotiations with the Palestinians and not to rely on unilateral measures to try to impose a solution to their conflict.

Clinton's Revenge & The New Democrats
Between Kabul and Baghdad, between New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, between Katrina and Rita, the failures of the Bush administration are fully exposed, yet the Democratic response has been scattered and muted. A New Deal can only come from an alternative outside the corporate mainstream.

Clinton to visit 'City of Nawabs'
Can Bill Clinton’s visit make India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh a prosperous state?

Clinton and Bush Snr to Lead Aid Appeal
Former presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush Snr are to lead the fund-raising campaign for Hurricane Katrina's huge humanitarian effort, reprising a role they played with some success after the Asian tsunami.

How Clinton Saw the Light During Surgery
Bill Clinton has seen the dark side but - fittingly in a week in which Star Wars mania has swept America - was saved by the light.

Laugh? I Almost Voted Tory
I agreed to help out the Labour campaign with a few jokes and ended up sharing a stage with Bill Clinton. John O'Farrell

Clinton to Have Follow-up Chest Surgery
Bill Clinton is to have another operation to remove scar tissue and fluid from his left chest, following on from his quadruple bypass surgery in September, his office said yesterday.

Clinton Nemesis Named As Security Chief
President Bush named a former assistant attorney general, who was once one of Bill Clinton's principal inquisitors in the Whitewater affair, as his new homeland security secretary yesterday.

Clinton Rises Above Rain on His Parade
Bill Clinton reclaimed his place on the world stage yesterday by basking in the attention of Hollywood jet-setters, Washington power-brokers and his fellow Arkansans at the dedication of his presidential library.

27,000 Guests Due at Opening of Clinton Library
Let's get this out of the way: there is no sign of Monica Lewinsky's blue dress in Bill Clinton's personal monument to his immortality, a cantilevered span of steel and glass that seems to float above the Arkansas river and which will house the physical remains of his presidency.

Gary Younge's Tour Reaches Arkansas
On the road: In the run-up to polling day, Gary Younge is driving the 2,147 miles from John Kerry's base in Boston, Massachusetts to George Bush's home town of Midland, Texas. Today he reaches Bill Clinton's old home state, Arkansas.

Thinner and Frailer, the Comeback Kid Puts Heart Into Kerry's Campaign
Bill Clinton, the perennial Comeback Kid of American politics, returned from his sick bed to centre stage yesterday, proving that his ailing, quadruply-bypassed heart is still in the fight. But it was a much thinner, frailer man who took the stage alongside John Kerry in Philadelphia's...

Clinton Rises From Sick Bed to Boost Kerry Campaign
Bill Clinton today made his first appearance on the campaign trail since his heart surgery seven weeks ago and urged voters to elect John Kerry as a president who "wants you to think and hope". The former president told a boisterous rally in Philadelphia that Mr Kerry, the Democratic...

Kerry Aides Hope Clinton's Late Arrival Will Swing States
Former President Bill Clinton will shrug off his recent heart surgery and hit the campaign trail tomorrow to stump for Democrat challenger John Kerry. Clinton's eleventh-hour appearance on the US electoral landscape comes amid a last push by the Democrats as they seek to overturn...

Clinton Will Rise From Sick Bed to Join Campaign
Bill Clinton, once known on the campaign trail as Elvis for his superstar, crowd-pleasing charms, will rise from his sick bed next week to come to John Kerry's aid, six weeks after a quadruple bypass operation. Mr Clinton's last-ditch intervention, starting on Monday in Philadelphia in a...

Forget Vietnam - It's the Economy, Clinton Tells Kerry
John Kerry, alarmed by a post-convention surge in the opinion polls for President George Bush, relaunched his campaign yesterday after taking the advice of Bill Clinton from his hospital bed. In a 90-minute conversation from hospital, Mr Clinton was reported yesterday to have sketched out...

Clinton to Have Bypass Surgery After Chest Pains
Former US president checks himself into New York hospital as tests reveal 'significant blockage' but no heart attack.

A Political Football
Frustrated by Blair's survival, the tabloids have turned on Sven. In the most public discussion of linguistics apart from Bill Clinton's use of the term "sexual relations" and Andrew Gilligan's ad-lib of "knowingly", the future of the England football coach may depend on the interpretation of three words: "This is nonsense."

Pity the Man Who Wins This Election
Given the state of the economy, it would be better for Kerry if he lost. The candidate has been anointed and he has accepted the challenge. America is now supposed to have an idea of what makes John Kerry tick and, in November, we shall see whether he has what it takes to do what Bill Clinton did and defeat an incumbent Bush.

Clinton Comes Out Fighting for Kerry
Calling himself a 'foot soldier' for John Kerry, Bill Clinton cheered Democratic convention delegates with an attack George Bush's record in power.

Top Clinton Aide in Secrets Row
President Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, is under criminal investigation for having removed top secret counter-terrorism documents from the US national archives, it was reported yesterday. Mr Berger said he inadvertently took home classified material in his pockets...

Two Nations Under God
Nothing more embodies the divisions in modern America than its leading dynasties, the Bushes and the Clintons.

Interview: Bill Clinton
On the eve of the publication of his eagerly anticipated $10m autobiography, Bill Clinton speaks exclusively to Alan Rusbridger and Jonathan Freedland in New York.

Kerry's New Problem is Clinton
Most of America is eagerly awaiting publication of the memoirs of Bill Clinton, one of the country's most successful and controversial Presidents. Yet John Kerry, fighting to be the next Democratic President, is dreading it.

Kerry Fears Clinton Memoirs Will Steal His Convention Limelight
Kerry and his strategists are fretting about a thorny problem: Bill Clinton's long-awaited memoirs.

Clinton's Aids Deal Snubs Bush Plan
The former US president Bill Clinton yesterday took a swipe at the Bush administration's close relationship with American pharmaceutical giants by announcing a deal to enable poor countries to buy cheap generic drugs and testing equipment for Aids, rather than the US companies' more expensive wares...

Bill Clinton Ready to Be New York's Mayor
Worldly-wise cab drivers and shoppers in the Big Apple hardly dare to believe the rumours ... Slick Willie is blowing into town and he'll win with ease.

US Troops to Quit Korean Border Zone
For the first time since the Korean war the United States is to withdraw its troops from the border between North and South, a redeployment which raises the prospect of a US strike on Pyongyang's nuclear facilities. The retreat from the 38th parallel - once described by Bill Clinton as...

Mimi's Very Private Affair
JFK's quiet mistress is no Monica Lewinsky. But she reveals far more. Farce repeats itself, the second time as history. Comparisons between Jack Kennedy and Bill Clinton - who deliberately had a JFK haircut during his first presidential campaign - have always been tempting.

Clinton caught in jury trap
It was supposed to be the routine jury selection for just another gangland shooting in the Bronx, one of the toughest boroughs of New York.

Mikhail, Bill, Peter and the Wolf
Mikhail Gorbachev and Bill Clinton are about to follow in the footsteps of Dame Edna Everage, Boris Karloff and David Bowie as they narrate a new recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.

Don't Give Up the Day Job, Jerry
The TV host already represents the world, so why run for the senate? There are persistent rumours that Bill Clinton plans to become a television talkshow host and, perhaps in retaliation, a member of that profession is plotting a reverse journey into politics.

Cherie Defies the 11-day Rule of Spin
Dr Campbell said no story could last this long, but he was wrong. Bill Clinton's image manipulators invented the 10-day rule, their estimation of the maximum time that the media would stay on the same story.

How Clinton came close to bombing
Seoul braced for a biological weapons attack, US forces on high alert in the demilitarised zone and White House staff arguing over whether to launch a surgical strike on a nuclear reactor.

Bush and Clinton join battle in Florida
President Bush yesterday conducted a storming election tour through the American heartland that seemed to display more energy and passion than his famously laid-back campaign for the presidency two years ago.

Clinton Oversees Unveiling of Berlin's Diva
Last night, Bill Clinton came to Berlin for what was billed as the world's biggest-ever unzipping.

Swooning Blackpool surrenders to the seducer from Arkansas CLP
Bill Clinton was brilliant, dazzling, charismatic, seductive and utterly shameless. The Labour party loved nearly all of it. I bumped into a senior minister straight after the speech. "I've just been for a fag," he said. "I always like a smoke after being made love to."

Clinton tells party Blair's the man to trust
Bill Clinton yesterday used a mesmerising oration to Labour's conference to urge his successor George Bush to honour his obligations to an integrated world and persevere with the United Nations as the safest route to solving the deepening Iraqi crisis.

Clinton to Undress Berlin's Famous Diva
A diva will be disrobed in the centre of the German capital this evening, assisted by the former US president Bill Clinton who is being flown in for the unzipping ceremony. In a huge fireworks and champagne extravaganza, Berlin's 18th-century Brandenburg Gate, dubbed "the diva" by locals,...

Clinton's Coded Jibes at Bush
Clinton's meaning was clear: he regarded current US policy as badly misguided. This was the speech of a president in exile. Like a deposed leader seeking refuge in a friendly nation, Bill Clinton came to Blackpool to deliver a message that can barely be heard in today's America.

Clinton dazzles Labour conference
Bill Clinton today wowed the Labour party conference in Blackpool with a broad-ranging speech in which he called on the international community to settle the Iraq crisis through the use of UN weapons inspectors.

Thanks for Nothing, Bill
He will be cheered because he is not Bush, but Clinton is also to blame for the crisis over Iraq. Short of seeing the West Wing's Josiah Bartlet at the podium to address them, it is hard to think of any American politician who would offer a more reassuring transatlantic presence at the Labour party conference this week than Bill Clinton.

Environment issues swing the vote
Bill Clinton was famously reminded by a supporter not to wander off the key issue in his campaign with the words: "It's the economy, stupid". Last night's early projections suggested that, in Germany's general election, "it was the environment, stupid".

The Audi man
Four times married, Germany's Chancellor earned his latest sobriquet from the four-ringed car badge. Running for a second term, the down-to-earth former Marxist lawyer who left school at 14 and became the Bill Clinton of the Federal Republic is now front runner in next Sunday's election : Gerhard Schröder

The Art of the Mulligan
George Bush and Bill Clinton have one shared weakness - they cannot resist taking a second go at a botched shot during golf.

Why Back a Born Loser?
Gore should not run against Bush again. He cannot win. There he was again the other day, inserting the stiletto called WorldCom between George Bush's shoulder blades. Bill Clinton, in or out of office, is still America's classiest political act.

Pressure grows on Clinton's classmate
Bob Mendelsohn, 55, was charged with sorting out the post-merger mess that Royal & SunAlliance had become five years ago. So far he has managed only to make matters worse and the calls for his head are getting louder by the day.

Ex-Clinton aide to host top US political show
He was the youthful poster boy of the Clinton administration, the quintessential Nineties Washington insider who went on to write the definitive political memoir of the era. Now George Stephanopoulos has a new role as the anchor of one of America's most respected political television shows.

How Clinton Came to Dinner and Made $9m
Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton, has made such a success of his new speaking career that his fellow Americans now refer to him as 'Dollar Bill'.

What's left?
When Primary Colors was published in 1996, few doubted that Bill Clinton was the inspiration for the presidential rogue the novel portrayed. But was that the whole story? In this exclusive extract from his new book, author Joe Klein looks back at the Clinton years and unearths the achievements buried beneath the scandal.

Rambling Clinton Strolls Off With $250,000
A rambling and expensive speech by the former US president Bill Clinton in southern China has gone down spectacularly badly, according to the Chinese press.

Clinton plans to recreate his sanctum
Oval Office replica for Little Rock Presidential Centre, if the $125m can be raised.

Move over, Oprah: Bill Clinton is looking for his own chat show
"And now, from the Clinton Show studios at NBC, let's hear it for your regular host... Biiiiiillllll CLINTON!" Cut to star, holding hands aloft and grinning inanely at the audience, like a politician.

'Enough evidence to charge Clinton'
The last official word on the sex scandals in the Clinton White House came yesterday when the independent prosecutor appointed to investigate the ex-president said there had been enough evidence to charge, and probably convict him, because of his lies over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Milosevic Calls on Clinton to Explain 'bestial Crimes'
Slobodan Milosevic kept up a blistering onslaught at the Hague tribunal yesterday, demanding that Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and other western leaders be questioned about "bestial" crimes in Kosovo and Serbia. Speaking calmly but forcefully from the dock on the second day of his opening...

On-trial Milosevic May Call on Clinton and Blair
Slobodan Milosevic may try to call Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and other Nato leaders to testify before the Hague war crimes tribunal, lawyers for the former Yugoslav president indicated yesterday.

Gennifer Flowers Discovers Life After Bill in the Big Easy
"It was just one of those things," sings the blonde chanteuse in the packed French Quarter piano bar. "Just one of those crazy things." And now the woman who achieved international celebrity because of just one of those flings with former president Bill Clinton has finally bounced back...

Nobody is listening to Clinton or Blair
They once ruled the world like two masters of the universe. During the closing years of the 20th century, they were comrades on a shared, global mission: Bill and Tony's excellent adventure. Today Bill Clinton and Tony Blair - the men who transformed their parties and won election and re-election...