This powerful message from President Bill Clinton's #BlackHistoryMonth radio address in 2000 still resonates today: "Too many Americans are not aware of the extraordinary contributions African-Americans have made to the life of our Nation...their story is a precious contribution to our common history and very much worth remembering this Black History Month." | Clinton Presidential Center

Bill Clinton, who was born on this day in 1946, was the 42nd president of the United States, and oversaw the country's longest peacetime economic expansion but his second term in the White House was dominated by the Monica Lewinsky scandal. | Biography