Video: 'From the archives: Clinton says "era of big government is over" in 1996 State of the Union address'

(Tuesday, January 23, 1996, 9:14 p.m. EST) — Offering his own idea of limited government to compete with the Republican vision, U.S. President Bill Clinton tonight challenged the nation to provide enough educational opportunities, economic security and freedom from crime to allow Americans to make the most of an “age of possibility.”

In an election-year State of the Union Message intended far more for voters than for the Republican-controlled Congress, Clinton separated himself from Democratic orthodoxy, twice pronouncing that the “era of big government is over.”

Video: 'Remarks to Press Before the Balkan Peace Agreement Signing'

(Thursday, December 14, 1995, President Clinton spoke at 12:50 p.m. Central European Time) — Presidents Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia signed the Bosnian peace treaty today in Paris during a ceremony presided over by U.S. President Bill Clinton and other international sponsors, ending the three-year-old Bosnian War, one of the Yugoslav Wars.