What Are Bill Clinton's Achievements

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President Clinton did have many great accomplishments during his first term but also did have some failures. Many political and personal scandals arose during his first term as the President. One instance involved the Whitewater River Project in Arkansas where it was said that the Clinton’s had illegal relations with a failed savings and loan in which they had profited off of. The other included a civil suit that involved Clinton sexually harassing a state employee Paula Corbin Jones while he was the Governor of Arkansas. Investigations of the above allegations lead to the knowledge of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Clinton was said to have had sexually relations with Lewinsky. Clinton denied these allegations and even appeared in front of the

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