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Bill Clinton is the official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery of the then former 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton by the painter Nelson Shanks. The painting was unveiled in 2006. The painting gathered media attention in 2015 when Shanks revealed that he had put in the shadow of a dress symbolizing the blue garment presidential intern Monica Lewinsky had kept with Clinton's fluid residue on it, which in turn led through a series of subsequent events to his impeachment.

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Notable quotes

“When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two -- and didn't like it -- and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again.”
— Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio file
“No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people.”
— Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference (July 31, 1998)
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
— President Clinton's speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.
“What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.”
— While touring tsunami-devastated areas with his presidential predecessor, George H. W. Bush, February 2005
“I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.”
— To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech.
“Someone should tell him that part of the art of politics is smiling when you feel like you're swallowing a turd.”
— To Alastair Campbell on David Trimble according to Campbell's diaries, The Blair Years (2007)

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Overview

Bill Clinton is the official portrait for the National Portrait Gallery of the then former 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton by the painter Nelson Shanks. The painting was unveiled in 2006. The painting gathered media attention in 2015 when Shanks revealed that he had put in the shadow of a dress symbolizing the blue garment presidential intern Monica Lewinsky had kept with Clinton's fluid residue on it, which in turn led through a series of subsequent events to his impeachment.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two -- and didn't like it -- and didn't inhale and never tried inhaling again.”
— Television interview (March 1992), quoted in the New York Times (31 March 1992) realone audio file
“No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people.”
— Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference (July 31, 1998)
“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”
— President Clinton's speech at the 200th anniversary of the University of North Carolina.
“What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.”
— While touring tsunami-devastated areas with his presidential predecessor, George H. W. Bush, February 2005
“I have met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best.”
— To Hillary Rodham Clinton when they both attended Yale University, repeated in a 2007 campaign speech.
“Someone should tell him that part of the art of politics is smiling when you feel like you're swallowing a turd.”
— To Alastair Campbell on David Trimble according to Campbell's diaries, The Blair Years (2007)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.