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After leaving office he faced disciplinary action by the Arkansas state bar; Clinton agreed to a suspension of his license to practice law in Arkansas for five years in return for the agreement of the Whitewater Independent Counsel that he would not be prosecuted in Federal court for perjury. As a result of the Arkansas disciplinary action Clinton faced disbarment from the US Supreme Court bar; he resigned his license to practice before the Supreme Court in order to avoid disbarment.
Clinton also instituted the
Clinton would again enter the spotlight in 2016. Bill played a significant role in his wife's campaigning, doing campaign work traditionally associated with the Vice Presidential candidate while the actual candidate was rarely seen. His wife's presidential run would also reignite scandals and subject him to new ones. Bill's many rape accusations, and the claimed role of Hillary in covering them up, greatly damaged her credibility. The duo's Clinton Foundation, which Bill played an active part in, was accused of being a [[Fake Charity]] to sell Hillary's influence as Senator and supposed next President with very little money was spent on actual charity.
He had perhaps the widest range of satirical portrayals of any president: at the beginning his comedic persona was that of a [[Deep South|hickish southerner]]; a "Bubba" who [[And a Diet Coke|enjoyed too much fast food]] and was out of his league in Washington. As his presidency went on, parodies increasingly played upon a "Slick Willie" portrayal: a fast-talker in both the situation room and the bedroom, able to invoke [[Refuge in Audacity]] to barrel through scandals with his popularity rating remaining high. Also, due to her involvement in politics, [[Hillary Clinton]] has perhaps been the target of more satire than any other First Lady: most of these satires played up her own ambitious nature and the notion of a "Faustian Deal" with her husband, where she would stay with him no matter how may affairs he might have, in exchange for aiding in her own ambitions for power and political office.
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