William Jefferson Clinton[2] was the President of the United States.
Biography[]
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1997[]
He gave the official order to create Stargate Command on September 30, 1997. His signature, along with that of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, was required to create and maintain the facility under the name of Stargate Command and class it as a top-secret facility whose primary purpose was, at the time, examining and exploiting the Stargate for the purposes of national security. To this end, he authorized the personnel of Stargate Command to explore alien planets, examine the native cultures and defend humanity across the universe. The three signatures also authorized General George S. Hammond to be in command of the facility located in a former NORAD space at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. (SG1: "The Stargate SG-1 Adventure Game", "Children of the Gods")
When deciding whether or not to operate on Major Charles Kawalsky to remove the goa'uld that infested Kawalsky's body, General Hammond suggested to Colonel Martin Kennedy that he would call the president himself to get approval to go ahead with it when Kennedy suggested that he would take it to his superiors. Clinton would later speak to Kennedy directly following the death of Kawalsky and his Goa'uld. (SG1: "The Enemy Within")
Clinton would later inform Hammond that the SG teams would start to evaluate the scientific and cultural value of each SG mission. (SG1: "The Broca Divide")
Months later, Secretary of Defense David Swift would inform SG-1 and Hammond that Clinton and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were not satisfied with the current progress of the Stargate Program of retrieving alien technology. (SG1: "The Nox")
During Teal'c's Cor-ai on the planet Cartago, Hammond would inform Colonel Jack O'Neill that Clinton would not authorize a rescue mission to free Teal'c. (SG1: "Cor-ai")
2004[]
Clinton was later replaced by Henry Hayes who took office in 2004. (SG1: "Inauguration")
Personality and traits[]
According to General Hammond, Clinton's administration forbade any interference of other people's affairs. (SG1: "Cor-ai")
Appearances[]
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Notes[]
During the first six seasons of Stargate SG-1, and up until the seventh season episode "Inauguration", the President in office was never identified by name. In "Paradise Lost", set in 2003, Harold Maybourne clearly states that the current administration "is coming to the end of its second term". Since Henry Hayes was inaugurated in 2004 (presumably on January 20, as per tradition) and elected in the fall of 2003, this means that his predecessor must have been in office for 2 terms (uninterrupted, as the show heavily imply), spanning the years 1997-2004. The Stargate SG-1 Adventure Game mentions the President in office in 1998 is William Jefferson Clinton, but since this was an unreleased, cancelled roleplaying sourcebook, its canon status is unconfirmed. While the official character name is unconfirmed in canon, all information in the article is canon.
The question of the president's true identity is further complicated by a comment by Jack O'Neill in one of the books in the series, where he mentions that he had in fact met the president when he was on duty in Vietnam, commenting that he was "a mild-mannered boy of Harvard, the most novice soldier on the base .... but not too hippy to be honest. " However, the "OTL" version of President Clinton never served in Vietnam, nor did he graduate from Harvard University, but these are all elements that point out to his Vice President Al Gore, who was, for a time, a serious candidate for the office of the President of the United States and did actually serve in Vietnam with the United States Army, just after he graduated from Harvard. If this were confirmed canonical, given that the 22nd Amendment require the President to serve only two terms at most, it could mean that for some unknown reason (perhaps some political or personal scandal) President Clinton decided to not seek out a second term of office, allowing Al Gore to be elected as President of the United States during the 1996 United States Election, thus giving credit to Maybourne's claim of the "current"(2003) presidential administration coming to an end of its second term of office. However, without official confirmation, the canonical status of this assumption is tenuous at best.