ABSTRACT
Bill Clinton, who had spent almost his entire adult life running for office, was an exceptionally skillful politician in the best and the worst sense of the term. The irony of Clinton's election in 1992 was that he won because of the economy and his domestic agenda, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not avoid tackling Bush's unfinished foreign policy agenda to Latin America, specifically, Haiti, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Enterprise of the Americas Initiative. He stumbled before addressing each of these issues, but in the end he secured the approval of NAFTA by Congress; restored constitutional government to Haiti; and convened an unprecedented Summit of the Americas to pledge a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) by 2005. Clinton was the first US president to take office after the Cold War, and he moved to the rhythm of a post-war era.
