Bill Clinton

New figures from Gallup place President Obama's reelection bid in a precarious gray zone between the one-term exit of presidents like George H.W. Bush, and successful second-term victories like those of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Combining Obama's job approval rating with several evaluations of public sentiment on the economy, Gallup's indicators show that the president is performing better than he was just a year ago, but his numbers are nonetheless lackluster compared with those of his predecessors.

Bill Clinton has some advice for Europe's leaders: Focus on stimulus, not cost cutting. The former president told a capacity crowd inside the Beverly Hilton's grand ballroom that the continent cannot rely on austerity measures to bail itself out of the debt crisis. Instead, it needs to focus on multiyear plans to boost its nations' economies. "The prescription of austerity has continued to be pushed in the face of all the evidence that it won't work," Clinton said at the Milken Institute's 2012 Global Conference.

President Clinton injured his leg walking down steps early Friday morning at professional golfer Greg Norman's Florida estate and underwent surgery later in the day to repair a torn tendon in his right knee. "I feel great. They did a terrific job," Clinton said after two hours of surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital in suburban Washington. "I just had an unlucky break."

Why do some people reach greater heights than others? Often, they simply have the persuasive stuff. Oprah Winfrey: She may not be an expert in healthful eating or relationships or novels, but millions of people follow her advice anyway. "She's positioned herself as a friend and an advisor," says British persuasion expert Steve Martin. "But she can also say: 'I'm one of you.' That's important. " Steve Jobs: The late co-founder of Apple was a master at building buzz.

The tattoos on his body still identify him as a member of the Five-Deuce Broadway Crips. His homeboys in South-Central Los Angeles know him as Cue Bone. Police computers show that he served three years for manslaughter. But all that will be forgiven next week when Charles Rachal boards a plane for Washington, D.C., where a complementary hotel room and tuxedo await his arrival as one of 50 "Faces of Hope" invited to Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration.

Using Father's Day to drive home his message about improving men's health, President Clinton on Saturday released the first portion of almost $60 million in prostate cancer research grants. Clinton said the largest-ever federal research awards for finding better treatments for the disease will pay for "new studies to determine the cause of prostate cancer [and] develop new methods of prevention and detection.

The Clinton administration on Friday imposed an immediate ban on the importation of semiautomatic assault-type weapons until the government decides whether they have been modified to skirt U.S. restrictions on foreign-made firearms that are not suitable for "sporting purposes."

The Democratic National Committee collected $27 million from guests who attended White House coffee klatches with President Clinton over the last two years, newly available records show. Many of those who were invited to the White House for private chats with Clinton and senior administration officials made substantial contributions to the Democratic Party within days of the events.

With 197 countries participating and perhaps as many as 100 heads of state attending, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games will be one of the most widely watched events of all time. Massive television coverage will mean that much of America and the rest of the world will be watching on July 20 when President Clinton says, "Let the Games begin," at opening ceremonies. In many other ways, Clinton will reap a rich harvest of publicity from the Games.

Bill Clinton sounds like he is hoping his wife, Hillary, has a presidential run in her. As for Hillary, she's just looking for some R&R. In separate interviews that aired Monday on MSNBC (watch below) , the former president and the current secretary of State were both asked about the speculation as to Hillary Rodham Clinton's political future, always a favorite topic of politicos. Hillary Clinton's latest answer was much like her previous ones: not completely shutting the door, but signaling it was a long shot.

Bill Clinton sounds like he is hoping his wife, Hillary, has a presidential run in her. As for Hillary, she's just looking for some R&R. In separate interviews that aired Monday on MSNBC (watch below) , the former president and the current secretary of State were both asked about the speculation as to Hillary Rodham Clinton's political future, always a favorite topic of politicos. Hillary Clinton's latest answer was much like her previous ones: not completely shutting the door, but signaling it was a long shot.

Nearly two decades ago, D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' documentary "The War Room" turned the strategists behind Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign into bona-fide media stars. The film's arrival on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection in another election year is a reminder of both how much and how little things have changed. The popular image of the darkly glamorous arts of political spin owes much to these veterans of the Clinton war room (George Clooney screened the film for his "Ides of March" cast)

Continuing to promote its new extended campaign ad, the Obama campaign on Monday released a second trailer for the 17-minute video, this one featuring Bill Clinton praising the president's handling of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. “He took the harder, and the more honorable path,” Clinton says in the newly released clip. “When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself, 'I hope that's the call I would've made.'” The Obama video, titled “The Road We've Traveled,” is due to be released Thursday and will zero in on key decisions made by the president in his first term, according to the campaign.

Presidents Day -- or Washington's Birthday, if you prefer -- is a time to celebrate all of America's past commanders in chief. Among the nation's most recent leaders, two are celebrated far more than others: Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton . That's the finding of Gallup, at least, which recently asked Americans to judge how the last eight presidents will go down in history. Sixty-nine percent said Reagan would go down as "outstanding" or "above average," compared to just 10% who said "below average" or "poor.

From La Quinta - One of the leading stupid mantras of the Olympics is that sports and politics don't mix. Golf never even entertained that thought, and Friday at the Humana Challenge, it floated out, as proof, Exhibit A. Into a room of people with cameras, microphones and notepads walked the 42nd president of the United States. This was Bill Clinton the golfer and golf fan, the event-promoter, fundraiser and agenda-setter. The man who ran the most powerful country in the world from 1993 to 2001 was dressed in a blue windbreaker vest and salmon pants.

Is there any wonder why some want to see this as a presidential ticket next year? President Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were named the Most Admired Man and woman in the world in 2011, according to a Gallup survey. Seventeen percent of Americans named Clinton, the top choice by 10 percentage points over Oprah Winfrey. Clinton, the secretary of State and former first lady, has now been the most admired woman in the poll a record 16 times; Gallup began asking Americans to name the person they most admire in 1946.

Bill Clinton on Tuesday downplayed perceived criticism of President Obama in his newly-released book, saying that his Democratic successor has "done a better job than he's getting credit for. " The former president does say in the book, "Back To Work," that the White House did not always take his advice on issues like the debt ceiling and Democrats' message in the 2010 campaign. But in a pair of interviews he sought to minimize any talk of a rift. "The book lavishly praises the administration's economic policy, its energy policy, its whole thing," Clinton told Ann Curry on NBC's "Today" show.

It's a claim that has been central to Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign: that he “balanced the budget for four straight years” when he was speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1990s. Now former President Clinton is calling Gingrich out, saying it's “not really” accurate for Gingrich to take the credit for all those balanced budgets. “I think he did work with me to pass some good budgets,” Clinton said Tuesday in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry.

On the same day that former President Clinton accused former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of taking undue credit for balancing the federal budget during Clinton's administration in the 1990s, the onetime rivals shied away from stirring up any more controversy over their past animosity as they appeared in back-to-back interviews Tuesday night on Fox News. Clinton, who is making the media rounds and promoting his new book, “Back to Work,” sat down with Fox host Bill O'Reilly for a candid talk that veered somewhat uncomfortably into the topic of the upcoming presidential election.

It's a claim that has been central to Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign: that he “balanced the budget for four straight years” when he was speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1990s. Now former President Clinton is calling Gingrich out, saying it's “not really” accurate for Gingrich to take the credit for all those balanced budgets. “I think he did work with me to pass some good budgets,” Clinton said Tuesday in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry.