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Semi-protected edit request on 13 April 2019
Please will you change the word 'accident' to read road traffic collision in the section referring to Clinton Senior death as this is the most accurate term as opposed to the archaic and inaccurate term accident, Templeronan (talk) 22:07, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
- Sergeant Angle, is that you? But seriously,
Not done, because for better or worse, "accident" is a common term, and it's the one that the source uses. It's not really Wikipedia's place to enforce changes (even good ones) in the language. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 03:01, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
Military Service post Vietnam War era?
I recall reading a London "Times" report of one of Clinton's first Presidential election campaign, where when asked about his understanding of military affairs he mentioned inter alia he was "major of a national guard unit" - which if true would make him the first POTUS to have been a US National Guard officer since Truman. Is it supported in any published biography or documented detail?Cloptonson (talk) 18:02, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 27 September 2019
In 1964 and 1965, Clinton won elections for class president.[16] From 1964 to 1967, he was an intern and then a clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright.[3] While in college, he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity. Alpha Phi Omega later became a National Fraternity that was co-ed in 1976 [17] Bill Clinton was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Clinton was also a member of the Order of DeMolay,[18] a youth group affiliated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity.[19] JesseBridges (talk) 17:26, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
Already done You just copied the text from Georgetown University section. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk (We are the champions, my friends) 11:40, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
Move impeachment to first or second paragraph
The impeachment of President Clinton, and his status as one of only two presidents to be impeached, should be mentioned in the first paragraph, or at least the second. Hiding it after mention of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 seems silly, no?
I moved the reference to the impeachment to the 2nd paragraph. An editor then reverted my edit and then threatened to block me. I noted that the Andrew Johnson impeachment is in the first paragraph of his bio, and the editor claimed that this was "false equivalency." Okay, then here we are on the talk page.
Is there any doubt that the impeachment of President Clinton is the first most notable element of his presidency? One of only two presidents (well, so far) to be impeached. Certainly more notable than the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, which at this point is also mentioned higher in the bio. Is this in doubt except among partisans?
From The Washington Post's columnist Max Boot, discussing the possible impeachment of Donald Trump: "Trump has no desire to go down in history as only the third president in 230 years to be impeached. This will leave an indelible stain on his presidency that no amount of spin can wash off. Impeachment will be in the first paragraph of his obituary, just as it is now in the first paragraph of Bill Clinton’s Encyclopaedia Britannica entry."
For comparison, here is the first paragraph of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on President Clinton: "Bill Clinton, original name William Jefferson Blythe III, (born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas, U.S.), 42nd president of the United States (1993–2001), who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion. In 1998 he became the second U.S. president to be impeached; he was acquitted by the Senate in 1999."
And here is the first paragraph of Wikipedia: "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 governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992, and the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy."Pop quizzed (talk) 01:07, 6 October 2019 (UTC)