In "Primary Colors", John Travolta played US President Jack Stanton, an alleged copy of which US president?

In the 1998 American comedy-drama film "Primary Colors", John Travolta played US President Jack Stanton, an alleged copy of US President Bill Clinton. This specific film through Stanton's actions takes a look at aspects of Clinton's first presidential 1992 campaign. The movie was directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Jonathan Krane, Neil Machlis, and Nichols. The screenplay is by Elaine May and was adapted from the novel "Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics" by Joe Klein. The film stars Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Maura Tierney, Larry Hagman, and Adrian Lester.

Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton, born August 1946) has served as an American politician and attorney and was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He came from the state of Arkansas; he served as governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992. He was attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979. He is very well known because he oversaw America’s longest peacetime economic expansion, and he became the second US president to be impeached in 1998. He was acquitted by the US Senate in 1999.

He married his wife Hillary Clinton in 1975. Born in October 1947, she was named Hillary Diane Rodham. She has been an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. She served as the 67th US Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, as a US Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as first lady of the US from 1993 to 2001.