Clinton decided that his growing interest in public service would best be served at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. With graduation approaching at Hot Springs High, Mr. His drama teacher termed him "a natural" and in his senior year cast him in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." No one who has watched his weight shoot up on the campaign trail is surprised by that. Clinton didn't excel at in school, except sports - though tall, he was inclined to pudginess, his mother says. Judging by the numerous inscriptions in his 1964 high school yearbook, which his mother proudly shows to visitors, he had many admiring friends. He mastered the tenor saxophone, became a leader in school clubs.
That's how he struck Virgil Spurlin, who was his band director at Hot Springs High School. Clinton says his experiences with an alcoholic stepfather made him older than his years. But the bad news is sometimes I try too hard to make peace when you just have to cut it and recognize that conflict is inevitable." "The good news is that I'm always trying to make things better. "I learned to be a peacemaker in my home, both forcibly and in non-forcible ways," he told an interviewer on MTV. Clinton believes that the experience with his stepfather helped shape his political personality. Bill, who took his stepfather's last name, also reconciled with him, visiting him regularly when his stepfather was dying of cancer.įorgive and forget the bad is a family trait, Mrs. Though they divorced, the couple later remarried. He abused alcohol and his wife, forcing young Bill to play peacemaker and protector.
The baby was named William Jefferson Blythe 4th.įour years later, she married Roger Clinton, a car dealer who moved the family to Hot Springs. Her husband and his father, William Jefferson Blythe 3rd, a traveling salesman, died in a car accident four months before Mr. Kelley's defensiveness about her son owes something to his defense of her as a youth.
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