![]() ![]() Domestically, he fought to balance the federal budget, presided over a government shutdown, and beat back a conservative cultural backlash. Clinton's administration was equally dramatic. He wrote, debated, played the saxophone, and eventually made it to Georgetown and Oxford universities, a law practice, then to Little Rock and the governor's mansion, and eventually to the White House. He became interested in politics at an early age. A turbulent home life and the vagaries of a segregated South, however, only pushed the gregarious Clinton to achieve. Difficulties began when Virginia married Roger Clinton, who struggled with alcohol and a violent temper. Clinton adored his mother, Virginia, a nurse with a large, loving family and a harmless penchant for the racetrack. William Jefferson Blythe was killed in an automobile accident just months before his son's birth. As explained in early passages notable for their frankness and humanity, Clinton, born to humble Arkansas roots, never knew his father. The first Democratic president to be elected to a second term since FDR in 1936, Clinton has lived what is by any account an eventful, inspiring life. Former President William Jefferson Clinton's hotly anticipated 957-page doorstop of a memoir is much like its author-charismatic, longwinded, and, many might say, deeply flawed. ![]()
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