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Political Party Leader- Cabinet Members
President William Jefferson Clinton chose Les Aspin Jr. as his first Secretary of Defense until 1994. His successor was Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997. His successor was Secretary of Defense from 1997 to the end of the Clinton administration in 2001. -
Executive Order-Establishment of the Domestic Policy Council
The Domestic Policy Council (DPC) coordinates the domestic policy-making process in the White House and offers advice to the President. The DPC also supervises the execution of domestic policy and represents the President%u2019s priorities to Congress. -
TREATIE SIGNING
Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine. -
Executive-Order Preventing Permanent Striker Replacement Issued
In order to maintain fairness and balance between workers and management, President Clinton issued an executive order preventing the federal government from contracting with businesses that hire permanent replacements for employees engaging in lawful strikes. -
Most Important Decision- The Signing of the Welfare Reform Bill
President Clinton kept his promise to end welfare as we know it by requiring welfare recipients to work, limiting the time they can stay on welfare, and providing child care and health care to help them make the move from welfare to work. The landmark bipartisan welfare reform law signed by the President also enacted tough new child support enforcement measures proposed by the President. Since January 1993, the number of people on welfare has fallen by nearly 60 percent, from 14.1 million to 5.8 -
Commander and Chief-Air Attacks on Saddam Hussein
Beginning December 16, 1998, American forces attacked Iraq%u2019s nuclear, chemical, and biological programs, and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Saddam Hussein had announced that he would no longer cooperate with UN inspectors to conduct inspections that would guarantee that Iraq does not try and rebuild its capacity to create weapons of mass destruction.
