Clinton

Clinton is a place name for numerous American towns and counties, most notably cities in Iowa, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.

More prominently, it refers to Bill Clinton, 42nd U.S. president, or Hillary Clinton, secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate.

The name evokes 1990s Democratic politics and, depending on speaker, either centrist pragmatism or political scandal: The Clintons dominated Democratic Party politics for decades.

Bill

Arkansas

Southern state, capital Little Rock

governor · lawyer · baby-boomer · vegan · comeback · memoir · philanthropy · foundation · library · jazz

Hillary

Benghazi

Libyan coastal metropolis

lawyer · Arkansas · healthcare · pantsuit · 2016 · historic · campaign · feminist · advocacy · memoir

scandal

impeachment

Charging officials with misconduct

subpoena · testimony · acquittal · intern · affair · tabloid · SNL · late-night · infidelity · deposition

presidency

POTUS

American head of state, abbreviated

  • administrationOrganizational oversight and control
  • 1990sFinal twentieth-century decade
  • NAFTAContinental free-commerce bloc

surplus · peacetime · prosperity · Bosnia · Kosovo · Dayton · Gingrich · midterms · legacy · executive

place

Iowa

Great Plains farming state

town · county · township · village · municipality · Midwest · small-town · America · namesake · geographic

Categories
Opposites
U.S. Political Dynasty/Party Rivalry

ClintonBush

American political surname

Trump · Donald Trump · Nixon · Reagan · Gingrich

Political Ideology (U.S. Spectrum)

ClintonNewt Gingrich

Reagan · Gingrich · Trump · Bob Dole · George W. Bush

Democratic Party factional positioning

ClintonBernie Sanders

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez · Elizabeth Warren · Jesse Jackson · Ted Kennedy

Phrases
Family

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G