Bill Clinton

At 77 years old, Bill Clinton has this physical status:

William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III; August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

Prior to his presidency, he served as governor of Arkansas (1979–1981 and 1983–1992) and as attorney general of Arkansas (1977–1979).

A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was known as a New Democrat, and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy.

He is the husband of former Secretary of State and former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton.

In 1998, Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives.

The impeachment was based on accusations that Clinton committed perjury and obstruction of justice for the purpose of concealing his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a 22-year-old White House intern.

Personal life

At the age of 10, he was baptized at Park Place Baptist Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas and remained a member of a Baptist church. In 2007, with Jimmy Carter, he founded the New Baptist Covenant Baptist organization.

On October 11, 1975, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, he married Hillary Rodham, whom he met while studying at Yale University. They had Chelsea Clinton, their only child, on February 27, 1980. He is the maternal grandfather to Chelsea's three children.

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Early life and career

William Jefferson Blythe III, Jr., was born in Hope, Arkansas, on August 19, 1946. He is the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr., a traveling salesman who died in an auto crash three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley). He had married on September 4, 1943, but his union later proved to be very strained as Blythe was still married to his third wife. Soon after Bill was born, Virginia moved to New Orleans to study nursing, leaving him with her parents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and operated a small grocery store in Hope. Clinton's grandparents sold merchandise on credit to people of all races at a time when the southern United States was racially segregated. Bill's mother recovered from nursing school and married Roger Clinton Sr., who co-owned a Hot Springs, Arkansas dealership with his brother and Earl T. Ricks. In 1950, the family moved to Hot Springs.

Although he immediately began using his stepfather's surname, it wasn't until Clinton turned 15 that he officially adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward him. Clinton has portrayed his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly assaulted his mother and half-brother Roger Clinton Jr. He assaulted his stepfather several times to shield them from harm.

Clinton attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and the whites only Hot Springs High School, where he was a student leader, avid reader, and guitarist. Clinton was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section. In 1961, Clinton became a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth group associated with Freemasonry, but he never became a Freemason. He briefly considered dedicating his life to music, but as he said in his autobiography My Life: a man with a heart.

When he took up the challenge to argue the support of the ancient Roman senator Catiline in a mock trial in his Latin class, Clinton declared an interest in law at Hot Springs High. "I told Latin teacher Elizabeth Buck that after a spirited defense that made use of his "budding rhetorical and political skills," he told the Latin teacher Elizabeth Buck it "made him understand that someday he'll study law."

Clinton has cites two pivotal events in his life, both occurred in 1963 and led to his decision to become a public figure. One of the few trips to the White House as a Boys Nation senator to speak with President John F. Kennedy. The other was watching Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 "I Have a Dream" address on television, which inspired him so much that he later memorized it.

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