Photos: Bill Clinton through the years
A look back at Bill Clinton, from law student to Arkansas governor to potential first gentleman.
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Sen. George McGovern, center, arrived in Little Rock, Ark., in early 1972, seeking support for his Democratic presidential nomination. He was met at the Little Rock Airport by Joe Purcell, right, chairman of the state Democratic Party, and by Bill Clinton, a McGovern campaign worker. (AP photo/stf)
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Bill (William) Clinton, New Governor of Arkansas (Democrat) in November 1978. (AP Photo)
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Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton is shown in 1979. Clinton was elected governor in 1978 at age 32. (AP Photo)
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Gov. Bill Clinton, wife Hillary Rodham, and week-old baby Chelsea pose for a family picture, March 5, 1980. It's the couple's first child. (AP Photo/Donald R. Broyles)
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President Jimmy Carter, left, and Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas applaud during a rally for Carter in Texarkana, Texas, Oct. 22, 1980. Texarkana was the last stop for Carter on a three-city one-day campaign swing through Texas. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
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Former Gov. Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, celebrate his victory in the Democratic runoff on June 8, 1982 in Little Rock, Ark. Clinton defeated former Lt. Gov. Joe Purcell. He faces Gov. Frank White, a Republican, in November. (AP Photo)
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Bill Clinton, who defeated incumbent Frank White in the governor’s race, said he was very tired, but happy in Little Rock, Arkansas on Nov. 3, 1982. In the background is Maurice Smith of Birdeye, a Clinton campaign official. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton testifies before the Senate subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 13, 1983. The subcommittee was holding hearings on mortgage bonds. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)
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Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas,right, and his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, chat with Mochtar Riady, chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Bank at a reception hosted by Riady, Oct. 7, 1985. (AP Photo/Dick Fung)
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and daughter, Chelsea, 6, leave the voting booth after the governor cast his vote during the Democratic primary in Little Rock, Ark., on May 27, 1986. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Chairman of the National Governors Association, Bill Clinton of Ark., takes part in the opening meeting of their winter meetings, Saturday, Feb. 21, 1987 in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Reed)
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, right, laughs as he is given a T-shirt by presidential hopeful Gov. Michael Dukakis, D-Mass., the site of a meeting of southern legislators in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 20, 1987. The shirt said, “Happy 41st, August 19, 1987, 'Clinton in 96’ you’ll only be 49.” Clinton announced last month that he would not seek the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton talks with Johnny Carson during his appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," in Burbank, Calif., July 28, 1988. Carson has made jokes about Clinton's lengthy nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith)
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Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton plays the saxophone with Doc Severinsen on the trumpet on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," in Burbank, Calif., July 28, 1988. Carson has made jokes about Clinton's lengthy nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Bob Galbraith)
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President Bush saluted four of the nation's governors during the State of the Union address before Congress in Washington, Feb. 1, 1990. The governors are, from left: Carroll Campbell of South Carolina, Booth Gardner of Washington, Terry Branstad of Iowa, and Bill Clinton of Arkansas. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)
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Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, with his daughter Chelsea at Little Rock, Arkansas, Jan. 1991. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrates with her husband, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea in Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 20, 1991, during his inauguration as Governor. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton jogs through the streets of Little Rock, Oct. 3, 1991. Clinton was to reveal his decision on whether or not to make another kind of run, for the Democratic presidential nomination, later in the day. (AP Photo/Tannen Maury)
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton talks to reporters during a visit to St. Louis, Monday, Jan. 13, 1992. Clinton, the six-term Arkansas governor, kicked off his campaign in Missouri with an appearance at St. Louis’ Union Station. (AP Photo/James A. Finey)
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, right, poses with his Daughter Chelsea in Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 30, 1992. (AP Photo/Lori McElroy)
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Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton, left, and vice presidential running mate Sen. Al Gore go on a jogging tour of Little Rock, Arkansas, Friday, July 11, 1992. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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President-elect Bill Clinton, third from left, is joined by Vice President-elect Al Gore, Jr., of Tennessee, and their families as they greet a cheering crowd in front of the Old State House in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tuesday night November 3, 1992, after winning Tuesday's presidential election. Left is Chelsea and Hillary Clinton. Right is Tipper Gore and Albert Gore, III. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)
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Hillary and Bill Clinton are shown at one of the four official inaugural dinners in Washington, Jan. 19, 1993. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
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U.S. President Bill Clinton names Janet Reno the nation's first female attorney general at a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 12, 1993. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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President Bill Clinton smiles as his portrait is unveiled by Yale University Law School Dean Guido Calabresi, right, during a reunion luncheon on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Ct., Saturday, afternoon, Oct. 9, 1993. Clinton is the third Yale Law School graduate to be elected President and his portrait will join Gerald Ford's and William Howard Taft's hanging in the school.
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President Bill Clinton outlines his new policy toward Haitian refugees during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on May 8, 1994. Shifting a policy that has led to criticism that he is insensitive to the plight of refugees, the president said the United States will begin offshore screening of Haitian boat people seeking political asylum. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)
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South African President Nelson Mandela waves with President Clinton during Mandela's State Arrival ceremony Tuesday, October 4, 1994, at the White House. Grateful for past help and seeking more, Mandela asked Americans Tuesday to expand the support they gave South Africa in the victory against apartheid, this time by helping revive his nation's economy. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)
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President Bill Clinton and nine-year-old Shawn Arbogast, of Harrisonburg, Va., look over Tom, a 50-pound turkey presented to the president in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Nov. 23, 1994. After the ceremony, the president pardoned Tom who will take up residence at the Flying Pan Park in Chantilly, VA. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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President Bill Clinton speaks at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia on Sunday, Feb. 19, 1995. Joined by the heroes of Iwo Jima, President Clinton paid tribute to a 50-year-old battle that turned the tide in World War II. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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U.S. President Bill Clinton gestures while jogging along the Potomac River in Washington with television's "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff, center, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1995. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, right, listens as President Clinton makes a point during a joint press conference in Jerusalem Thursday March 14, 1996. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)
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President Clinton speaks to supporters after arriving by helicopter in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1996. Clinton shares the stage with wife Hillary and daughter Chelsea and other family members who greeted him upon his arrival. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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President Clinton is sworn in for his second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist during the 53rd Presidential Inauguration Monday, Jan. 20, 1997, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Bill Clinton looks at a sugar cone with a double scoop of blueberry ice cream at Mad Martha's Ice Cream Shop in Edgartown, Mass. where he and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, stopped Saturday, Aug. 23, 1997 after visiting the agricultural fair. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)
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President Clinton angrily shakes his finger as he denies any improper behavior with an intern; Clinton spoke at a White House event on after-school child care Monday, Jan. 26, 1998, in the Roosevelt Room. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman," Clinton said. "I never told anybody to lie." (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
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President Clinton makes a statement of contrition from the Rose Garden of the White House Friday, Dec. 11, 1998, just minutes before the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach him. Nearing a dramatic showdown over the fate of his presidency, President Clinton apologized to the country today for his conduct in the Monica Lewinsky affair and said he would accept a congressional censure or rebuke. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)
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President Clinton address Democratic lawmakers who joined him outside the Oval Office of the White House after the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president, Saturday Dec. 19, 1998. Looking on is Vice President Gore. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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President Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appear stoic before the president spoke about the Littleton, Colorado school shootings at a gathering of volunteers at the White House, Thursday, April 21, 1999. He later said "the most important thing all of us can do right now is to reach out to each other and to families and their young children." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Clinton meets with the recently released POW's, from left, Staff Sgt. Andrew Ramirez, Specialist Steven Gonzales, and Staff Sgt. Christopher Stone, right, during a visit to the Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Wednesday, May 5, 1999. "They look fine, don't they?" asked Clinton as he posed for pictures with the three soldiers. "I'm proud of them."(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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US President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with Jerome Koechlin, chief of protocol of the Swiss state of Geneva, left, as he arrives at the airport in Geneva, Switzerland, early Sunday, March 26, 2000. (AP Photo/Martial Trezzini)
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President Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton along with Democratic presidential hopeful Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, acknowledge supporters during a symbolic passing of the torch ceremony, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2000, in Monroe, Mich. "You know, Bill Clinton worked hard to get this economy right. And I'm pledging to you here today, I am not going to let the other side wreck it and take it away from us," the vice president told a cheering crowd of thousands in the courthouse square. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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President Bill Clinton and first lady Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. shown with President-elect George W. Bush and his wife Laura on the North Portico of the White House before leaving for Capitol Hill, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Formers Presidents, from left, George Bush, Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton, along with Clinton's daughter Chelsea, leave the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Friday, Sept. 14, 2001 after a memorial service for victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses a fund-raising dinner, to establish a "Clinton Program for American Studies" at Tel Aviv University, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2002, in Tel Aviv after he received an honorary doctorate from the university. Clinton said Sunday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat missed a "golden opportunity" to make peace with Israel and called the 16 months of bloodshed "a terrible mistake." (AP Photo/David Silverman, Pool)
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Former President Bill Clinton listens to a speaker introduce him to students in a music class at Roberto Clemente Middle School in Harlem, Thursday, April 25, 2002, in New York. The class is part of the "Save The Music" program which has companies donate instruments to keep music programs in public schools. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the annual convention of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH coalition Tuesday, June 24, 2003, in Chicago. Clinton told the audience that it would be likely there would be a need for affirmative action for years to come. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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From left to right, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., former President Bill Clinton, and former President Jimmy Carter raises arms together at their party titled "Unity Day" Thursday, March 25, 2004 in Washington. Democrats embraced John Kerry as their new chief with a show of solidarity from presidents, campaign rivals and former foes who are putting aside their differences in an effort to oust President Bush. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President George W. Bush, left to right, former President Bill Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter and former President George H.W. Bush, walk from the William J. Clinton Presidential Center to the podium during opening ceremonies in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Nov. 18, 2004. The $165 million glass-and-steel center will be the home to Clinton's library collection of more than 80 million presidential items. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center, gestures to journalists as former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George H.W. Bush, right, look on prior to their meeting at Polonia Airport in Medan, Indonesia, Sunday, Feb. 20 , 2005. The two former U.S. Presidents met with Yudhoyono before traveling to Aceh province, the area hardest hit by the massive Dec. 26 undersea quake and the tsunami it unleashed. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
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Former President Bill Clinton greets well-wishers before the St. Louis Cardinals faced the New York Mets , Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, in a baseball game at Shea Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Former President Bill Clinton, left, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, greet commuters at the Parkchester subway station in the Bronx borough of New York, Monday, Nov. 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
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Former President Bill Clinton, right, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg laugh during a news conference announcing the creation of a global Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program in New York, Wednesday, May 16, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, laugh as they order lunch at the Tursi's Latin King restaurant, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Former President Bill Clinton makes remarks during a campaign event for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in Bethlehem, Pa., Wednesday, March 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Former President Bill Clinton, center, and daughter Chelsea Clinton, right, look on during a ceremonial swearing-in for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Former President Bill Clinton, right, is joined by Jeff Kindler, CEO of Pfizer, left, and Robert Court, CEO of Mylan as he speaks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009 in New York. Clinton has struck an agreement with two drug companies to provide cheaper, better HIV treatments to patients in poor nations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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iFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, shakes hands with a woman while touring the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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In this July 21, 2011, file photo, U.N. special envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, left, talks to Haitian President Michel Martelly while inspecting numerous model homes displayed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file)
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Former US president Bill Clinton, center, walking towards the hospital with Rwandan Ministry for Health, Agnes Binagwaho, left, and a doctor, right, from The Cancer Center at Butaro Hospital, in the Northern Province of Rwanda Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Cyril Ndegeya)
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President Barack Obama awards former President Bill Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a rally for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in Hartford, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Former president Bill Clinton speaks during a rally for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, before the Iowa Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former President Bill Clinton kicks a balloon at the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , Thursday, July 28, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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