Bill Clinton

====Irish peace talks====

[[File:President Bill Clinton and Gerry Adams.jpg|thumb|right|Clinton shaking hands with [[Gerry Adams]] outside a business in East Belfast, November 30, 1995]]
In 1992, before his presidency, Clinton proposed sending a peace envoy to [[Northern Ireland]], but this was dropped to avoid tensions with the British government. In November 1995, in a ceasefire during [[the Troubles]], Clinton became the first president to visit Northern Ireland, examining both of the two divided communities of [[Belfast]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=1995: Clinton kindles hope in Northern Ireland|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/30/newsid_4459000/4459860.stm|date=November 30, 1995 |access-date=December 12, 2019}}</ref> Despite [[Unionism in Ireland|unionist]] criticism, Clinton used his visit as a way to negotiate an end to the violent conflict, playing a key role in the [[Northern Ireland peace process|peace talks]] that produced the [[Good Friday Agreement]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=MacGinty |first1=Roger |title=American Influences on the Northern Ireland Peace Process |journal=Journal of Conflict Studies |date=1997 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=31–50 |url=https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/jcs17_02art02 }}</ref>

[[File:Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin 1994.jpg|thumb|right|Clinton plays the saxophone presented to him by Russian president [[Boris Yeltsin]] at a private dinner in Russia, January 13, 1994.]]