Título: Bill Clinton
Seção: Early life and career
Background: William Jefferson Clinton (ne Blythe III; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Prior to the presidency, he was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. A member of the Democratic Party, Clinton was ideologically a New Democrat and many of his policies reflected a centrist "Third Way" political philosophy. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas and attended Georgetown University, the University of Oxford, and Yale Law School.

Conteúdo: Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas. He was the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918-1946), a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth, and Virginia Dell Cassidy (later Virginia Kelley: 1923-1994). His parents had married on September 4, 1943, but this union later proved to be bigamous, as Blythe was still married to his third wife. Soon after Bill was born, Virginia traveled to New Orleans to study nursing. She left her son in Hope with her parents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store. At a time when the southern United States was racially segregated, Clinton's grandparents sold goods on credit to people of all races. In 1950, Bill's mother returned from nursing school and married Roger Clinton Sr., who owned an automobile dealership in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with his brother and Earl T. Ricks. The family moved to Hot Springs in 1950.  Although he immediately assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Clinton turned 15 that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather. Clinton said that he remembered his stepfather as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and half-brother, Roger Clinton Jr., to the point where he intervened multiple times with the threat of violence to protect them.  In Hot Springs, Clinton attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, R

user: Where was Clinton born?

assistant: Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.

user: What was his early family life like?

assistant: He was the son of William Jefferson Blythe Jr. (1918-1946), a traveling salesman who had died in an automobile accident three months before his birth,

user: Who else was in his family?

assistant: Virginia Dell Cassidy

user: Did he have any siblings?

assistant: She left her son

user: Where did he go to school?

assistant: In Hot Springs, Clinton attended St. John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and Hot Springs High School,

user: Did he do any notable activities at that age?

assistant: where he was an active student leader, avid reader, and musician.

user: What else did he do related to extracurriculars?

assistant: Clinton was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

user: How did his career get started?

assistant: He briefly considered dedicating his life to music, but as he noted in his autobiography My Life:

user: What area did he decide to go into?

assistant: Clinton began an interest in law at Hot Springs High, when he took up the challenge