Bill Clinton calls the urgent question of our time at Whether we can make our friends, and not our enemies, change. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton was elected as the forty-second president of the United States of America. After a long and hard process in the primary elections of the Democratic Party and although he did not start as a favorite, he got the nomination of the party. Finally, and after defeating the then President George HW Bush at the polls , he was elected president.The inauguration of Bill Clinton was on January 20, 1993.