10/92Ratio of the number of times President Bush has had his hair cut this year to the number of times Bill Clinton has: 2:1
2/92Number of times Bill Clinton used the term “middle class” in the speech announcing his candidacy for president: 12
8/92Rank of Bill Clinton, among all Democratic presidential nominees since 1956, in percentage of primary votes won: 1
8/92Percentage of Americans who say that “there is no chance” they would vote for Clinton in November: 48
1/93Additional electoral votes Bill Clinton would have won if blacks in the South had voted at 1988 levels: 39
10/93Rank of High Noon, among Bill Clinton’s favorite movies: 1
10/93Percentage of Americans who believe that Clinton’s advisers make “most of the important decisions in the White House”: 59
Percentage who said this about Ronald Reagan’s advisers ten years ago: 58
10/93Rank of Mother Teresa and Elizabeth Taylor, among the women most admired by U.S. Latinos: 1,2
Rank of Bill Clinton and the Pope, among the men most admired: 1,2
10/93Number of jokes told about Bill Clinton this-year in the monologues of late-night network TV talk shows: 391
Number of jokes told about George Bush during his first six months in office: 60
10/93Price paid at auction in August for a set of unwashed sheets slept on by President Clinton last February: $900
11/93Amount Sammy Crabtree earned in August giving tours of Bill Clinton’s first home, which he owns: $437
12/93Number of times President Clinton used the word “security” in his health-care speech before Congress in September: 12
Number of times he used the word “security” in his speech before the United Nations a week later: 7
12/93Number of New York Times articles this year in which Bill Clinton has been compared to Franklin Roosevelt: 18
3/93Average number of years a Clinton cabinet member has worked in Washington: 13
Chances that a member of George Bush’s original cabinet was a lawyer: 1 in 5
3/93Number of times during the transition that Bill Clinton was quoted in the New York Times using the word “stuff”: 6
4/93Ratio of the number of millionaires in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet to the number in George Bush’s: 1:1
4/93Average number of phone calls received each hour by the White House during Bill Clinton’s first 10 days in office: 2,500
4/93Number of “Home of Bill Clinton” birdhouses sold by Russell’s Smokehouse in Hope, Arkansas, since November: 150
5/93Amount President Clinton has proposed cutting from the budget of the CIA: 0
5/93Average number of laps around the new White House jogging track required to burn off the calories in one Big Mac: 21
7/93Number of presidentially appointed federal jobs that Bill Clinton had not filled after 100 days in office: 1,800
8/93Number of New York Times articles in May containing the words “Clinton” and “focus”: 102
8/93Number of Democratic House members whose percentage of the vote in November was lower than Bill Clinton’s: 0
8/93Number of Americans who must become Rhodes scholars for Clinton’s Cabinet to “look like America”: 17,000,000
8/93Rank of Bill Clinton’s shoes, among the largest of any president since Woodrow Wilson: 1
10/94Rank of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon, among the best-selling president masks last Halloween: 1,2
11/94Number of the 16 Democratic senators up for reelection this month whose TV or radio ads mention Bill Clinton: 1
11/94Ratio of spending on campaign ads by Bill Clinton in 1992 to total spending on all health-care-policy ads this year: 2:3
11/94Percentage of Americans who say they would vote for Dan Quayle over Bill Clinton if the election were held today: 31
2/94Number of undelivered invitations to Clinton’s Inaugural discovered in an Arkansas warehouse in December: 49
2/94Ratio of 1993 sales of Hillary: Her True Story to sales of The Life and Career of Bill Clinton: 3:2
3/94Number of Clinton appointees found to be delinquent in paying social security taxes for domestic workers: 28
4/94Expiration date of the new special prosecutor’s lease on a Little Rock office for the Whitewater investigation: 1/21/97
4/94Points by which President Clinton’s January approval rating exceeded that of Ronald Reagan after one year in office: 5
4/94Total tax deductions Bill Clinton has claimed since 1986 on charitable donations of used underwear: $22
6/94Ratio of network evening-news time devoted to health-care reform this year to the time devoted to Whitewater: 1:3
6/94Ratio of the amount President Clinton spent on polling last year to the amount spent by George Bush in 1989: 28:1
6/94Price of one cubic foot of Whitewater dirt, from the Whitewater Development Company, digging not included: $19.95
9/94Chances that a black federal judge appointed since 1977 was appointed by Bill Clinton: 3 in 4
11/95Change since September 1994 in the percentage of Americans who say they have no opinion of Bill Clinton: +6
2/95Rank of Lincoln, Clinton, and Nixon, among U.S. presidents elected by the lowest percentage of voters: 1,2,3
6/95Number of bills passed by Congress that Bill Clinton has vetoed: 0
6/95Points by which Bill Clinton’s approval rating in March 1995 exceeded Ronald Reagan’s in March 1983: 5
Points by which it fell short of George Bush’s approval rating in March 1991: 41
7/95Number of pollsters retained for use by President Clinton: 3
11/96Number of times Bill Clinton met with Secretary of Education Richard Riley last August: 1
11/96Percentage change in the number of gays discharged since Clinton initiated his “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy: +21
12/96Number of ethnic restaurants Bill Clinton sampled at last July’s Taste of Chicago: 8
2/96Ratio of visits to Bosnia made by President Clinton since 1992 to those made by the editor of Soldier of Fortune: 1:4
2/96Sets played by Roger Clinton’s band last year at the opening of the Nixon Library’s “Rockin’ the White House” exhibit: 1
4/96Ratio of congressional hearings devoted to Whitewater since last July to those devoted to Medicaid or Medicare: 6:1
4/96Rank of vintner Ernest Gallo, among the largest lifetime contributors to Bob Dole and Bill Clinton, respectively: 1,5
5/96Chances that a witness deposed by the Senate’s Whitewater committee took the Fifth: 0
Chances that a witness deposed by a 1991 Senate ethics panel investigating Alfonse D’Amato did: 1 in 2
7/96Percentage of the promises President Clinton “meant to keep” that he has kept, according to George Stephanopoulos: 100
8/96Percentage change in the size of the annual U.S. budget deficit since Bill Clinton took office: -50
8/96Rank California dentists assign the trustworthiness of Bill Clinton’s smile as compared with that of Bob Dole’s: 2
8/96Amount Comedy Central paid in May for two acres of Whitewater Development property: $10,000
9/96Number of radio stations that offered Chelsea Clinton a car for her sixteenth birthday last February: 3
1/97Number of Bill Clinton Waffles a California bakery has sold since their introduction last September: 50,000
10/97Percentage of Americans earning more than $246,000 who met Bill Clinton last year: 11
10/97Seating capacity of the President’s new Hot Spring Grandee® hot tub: 7
10/97Rank of Hillary Clinton, among the best-selling Halloween masks last year at Washington’s Backstage costume shop: 1
Rank of Bill Clinton and the Cryptkeeper: 2,3
11/97Months after Paula Jones filed suit against President Clinton that the I.R.S. decided to audit her: 40
4/97Number of “difficult, detailed” government-program cuts President Clinton says his new budget contains: 238
Percentage of these his budget director declared too “boring” to list for reporters at a February press conference: 100
7/97Ratio of Californians who voted to legalize medical marijuana last year to those who voted for Bill Clinton: 21:20
8/97Percentage of Americans earning less than $25,000 a year who believe the President propositioned Paula Jones: 29
Percentage of Americans earning at least $50,000 a year who believe this: 48
9/97Ratio of Americans who oppose NAFTA expansion to the number who voted for Bill Clinton last year: 3:1
10/98Number of years that President Clinton’s private lawyer David Kendall has vetted articles for the National Enquirer: 15
11/98Number of Moscow’s major newspapers that mentioned last August’s Clinton/Yeltsin summit the day before it began: 0
Number of U.S. households that chose professional wrestling over the President ‘s televised apology that month: 6,379,000
11/98Number of Tomahawk cruise missiles the U.S. could launch for the price of the Whitewater investigation: 40
11/98Percentage of Americans who believe that President Clinton should see a psychotherapist: 44
11/98Months after publicly calling the President a “scumbag” last April that Rep. Dan Burton admitted his own adultery: 4
12/98Percentage of days that Bill Clinton has spent in the White House this year: 44
2/98Percentage of Americans who believe they are more likely to cheat at cards than Bill Clinton or Al Gore: 8
4/98Percentage of Americans who say they would not want their 21-year-old daughter to intern in the Clinton White House: 44
4/98Months after Bill Clinton’s inauguration that heterosexual fellatio was legalized in Washington, D.C.: 4
Number of states in which the practice is still illegal: 14
5/98Chance that an American believes Madeleine Albright has alleged a sexual relationship with the President: 1 in 200
6/98Years after the Rwandan massacre that President Clinton admitted “we did not act quickly enough”: 4
6/98Percentage of African-Americans who wish Bill Clinton could run for a third term: 74
7/98Amount Bill Clinton earned last year in residuals for his 1992 saxophone performance on Arsenio Hall: $76
9/98Chance that an American would characterize the President’s alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky as “harassment”: 1 in 10
9/98Year by which Dan Quayle says he’s convinced that Republicans “will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton ”: 2000
1/99Chance that an American believes Bill Clinton is “a bigger threat to the American way of life” than Saddam Hussein: 1 in 5
11/99Amount by which the President ‘s ten-year defense budget exceeds that of House Democrats: $158,000,000
Amount by which it exceeds that of House Republicans: $206,000,000
11/99Ratio of lines devoted to Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 1999 Who’s Who in America to those devoted to her husband: 4:1
11/99Percentage of Americans who said in November 1991 that they had not “heard enough” about Bill Clinton: 82
12/99Average number of U.S. cruise missiles launched per month during the Clinton Administration: 11
12/99Number of toxic spills reported within one mile of the Clintons ‘ new house in Chappaqua, New York: 43
12/99Billions in new federal poverty spending that the President proposed during his poverty tour last July: $1
2/99Number of DON’T IMPEACH THE PRESIDENT IF IT INTERRUPTS MY SOAPS! T-shirts printed by Soap Opera Digest last fall: 250
2/99Weeks after DNA testing confirmed Bill Clinton’s adultery last fall that such testing confirmed Thomas Jefferson’s as well: 7
4/99Distance in miles between the Stanford dorm room of Chelsea Clinton and that of Carolyn Starr, daughter of Kenneth: 0.7
4/99Length, in pages, of the letter Linda Tripp distributed last winter soliciting donations to her legal defense fund: 12
Number of Americans who have made a donation: 20,000
5/99Rank of retired and housewife, among the most common “occupations” of donors to Bill Clinton’s legal defense fund: 1,2
5/99Ranking points by which the name Monica has dropped in popularity among those given U.S. girls since 1997: 24
5/99Days the President should spend in jail “simply for hitting on a dog like” Paula Jones, according to O.J. Simpson: 30
7/99Amount that the head of Chinese military intelligence gave Clinton fund-raiser Johnny Chung in 1996: $300,000
Ratio of the amount that Chung spent on himself to the amount that he gave to the Democratic National Committee: 14:1
9/99Number of U.S. presidents besides Bill Clinton who have made an official visit to an Indian reservation since 1937: 0
12/00Rank of Bill Clinton among the “most important people in the world today,” according to U.S. schoolchildren: 1
Rank of the Pope, J. K. Rowling, and God, respectively: 2, 13, 19
Rank of “myself”: 11
2/00Percentage change in the number of marijuana arrests since Bill Clinton became president: +56
8/00Percentage of national forestland unprotected under the President’s proposed ban on forest-road construction: 78
8/00Minimum amount President Clinton’s pension and staff will cost U.S. taxpayers if his life span is average: $6,072,000
8/00Ratio of the number of corporate mergers signed under the Clinton Administration to those signed under Reagan: 3:1
1/01Number of studies showing that the death penalty is a deterrent, according to Attorney General Janet Reno: 0
11/01Estimated number of Colombians who live in “Bill Clinton ,” a homeless settlement near Cartagena: 10,000
3/01Percentage of life that is “just holding on,” according to Bill Clinton: 90
4/01Hours after taking office in 1993 that Bill Clinton ordered a five-year delay on lobbying by ex-White House officials: 1
4/01Blocks separating Kenneth Starr’s New York University Law School office from Monica Lewinsky’s apartment: 7
Blocks separating Lewinsky’s apartment from Bill Clinton ‘s Harlem office: 135
5/01Ratio of the number of pardons granted by President Clinton to the number granted by President Reagan: 1:2
Ratio of the number granted by President Reagan to the number granted by President Eisenhower: 1:3
10/02Percentage of Americans who blame Bill Clinton’s”moral failings” for the current business scandals: 51
Percentage who blame President Bush’s “close ties to big corporations”: 46
Percentage who say this about Bill Clinton: 44
4/02Number of times “evil” has been cited in State of the Union addresses by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, respectively: 5, 2
7/02Amount that Bush’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the previous election cycle: $1,590,000
Amount that Bill Clinton’s first 320 appointees spent on campaign contributions in the election cycle prior to Clinton’s election: $1,040,000
9/02Number of bills vetoed by George W. Bush during his first 18 months in office: 0
Number of other U.S. presidents who have done this since 1850 besides Bill Clinton and Millard T. Fillmore: 0
12/03Number of times Democratic presidential candidates used the word “jobs” in their first four debates after Labor Day: 111
Number of times they mentioned Bill Clinton: 36
3/03Percentage change in the size of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve under George W. Bush: +11
Percentage change in the size of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve under Bill Clinton: -5
3/03Rank shared by Jesus Christ and Bill Clinton among “the greatest Americans of all time,” according to Americans: 13
9/04Number of words in the first sentence of Bill Clinton’s memoir and in that of George W. Bush’s, respectively: 49, 5
5/05Average amount the Bush Administration has spent per year on contracts with P.R. firms: $62,500,000
Average amount spent during the second term of the Clinton Administration: $32,000,000
1/06Percentage approval rating of Bill Clinton the day after impeachment and George W. Bush in November, respectively: 73, 37
Average number made each year under Bill Clinton: 65
7/07Number of U.S. soldiers who have died in combat or non-combat situations while on duty since 2001: 9,185
8/07Percentage of federal inspectors general appointed by Bush and Clinton, respectively, who had prior audit experience: 36, 66
Percentage who held some political position prior to their appointment: 45, 22
8/07Number of Bush White House officials who are authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the Justice Department: 711
Estimated portion eight years from now, if Hillary Clinton were to win two terms: 1/3
6/08Portion of Barack Obama supporters who said in April they would not vote for Hillary Clinton if she became the nominee: 1/5
7/08Rank of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton, respectively, in Gallup’s general-election poll on June 26, 1992: 1, 3
1/09Number of words in the first sentence of Bill Clinton’s memoir and in that of George W. Bush’s, respectively: 49, 5
1/09Number of White House officials in 2006 and 2007 authorized to discuss pending criminal cases with the DOJ: 711