(crowd cheering) NARRATOR: In 1992, Bill Clinton became the nation's first baby-boomer president.

WEASEL: I was a freshman at American University the year that Bill Clinton was a senior at Georgetown University.

And to me, personally, it was as if one of us had ascended to become President.

TONY: He was like Barack Obama before Obama in the Black community.

WOMAN: Good morning.

CLINTON: Well, I'll see you some more, I'm sure.

NARRATOR: Once in office, Clinton took to Washington's streets.

REPORTER: The on-the-go Clinton went out for a jog earlier this morning.

The president-elect has said he wants to burst the bubble of security that surrounds presidents.

PAT: Bill Clinton made an effort to endear himself to the residents of the city.

He ventured outside of the White House, not just to jog, which was a nightmare for the Secret Service, but he visited the neighborhoods.

MAN: He was such a character, he could talk to anybody, and he did.

NARRATOR: Clinton brought a fresh energy to the city as well.

TED: He was kind of like Lawrence Welk, you know, and what you'd watch on "Ed Sullivan" and then there were The Beatles.

That was kind of the feeling.

There was this real generational change.

COKIE: They bring in a lot of their young, enthusiastic people with them, and so Washington becomes, at least temporarily, more Technicolor and a little bit livelier.

It gets staid again pretty quickly after that.

(chuckles) NARRATOR: For more clips and to watch the full program, visit weta.org/decades.