The US presidents’ programmes. Bill Clinton

Despite certain mistakes and miscalculations, President William J. Clinton’s tenure went down in the US history as the longest period of economic growth throughout the 20th century. His anti-crisis programme along with his active policies of economic regulation based themselves on welfare, tax, social and other reforms and orientation towards a long-term economic growth of new branches of economy which had emerged during the previous innovation cycle: wide computer availability, the Internet development, biotechnologies and genetic engineering, nanotechnologies. Bill Clinton described the essences of his policies with “six fors”: for economic growth, for protection of environment, for defence of civil rights, for fighting crime, for growth of business, for the interests of labour.