Photograph of President William J. Clinton Participating in a Reception for Community Heroes of the Floods of 1993 at the Henry VIII Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri
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This item is a photograph of President William J. Clinton participating in a reception for community heroes of the floods of 1993 at the Henry VIII hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. President Clinton holds up a commemorative flood t-shirt he is given. The shirt says, "Water, water everywhere, nothing to drink, until we were there!" First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are pictured to the left of the President. The image was photographed by Barbara Kinney.
Photographs Relating to the Clinton Administration
William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the Presidency, he was the 40th Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and the state's 42nd Governor from 1983 to 1992. Before that, he served as Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979. Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas; he was named William Jefferson Blythe III. He was the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918–1946), a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born October 26, 1947, is an American politician who was the 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, and earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1973.
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