![]() ![]() However, when his younger brother Roger Cassidy Clinton started school, Clinton legally changed his name, according to park information. (Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III but later changed his name to "Clinton" after his mother married Roger Clinton.) Although he went by "Clinton" from the time his mother remarried, Roger never formally adopted him. Blythe - a World War II veteran - died before Clinton was born while traveling from Chicago where he worked to Arkansas to join his wife,Virginian Cassidy Blythe. No one knows exactly what happened, but he died in Missouri during a one-car automobile accident. 19, 1946 - never knew his father, William Jefferson Blythe II, of Sherman, Texas. ![]() ![]() The park's visitor center includes exhibits about the president's early life in Hope, and guided tours are offered at the house. Clinton lived here for four years mostly with his grandparents because his mother went to New Orleans to continue her education as a nurse anesthetist when he was 3. "Even the fire chief said that five more minutes and the house would have burned down," said park service ranger Christian Davis. Repairs were complete in time for the 100th anniversary celebration of NPS and Clinton's 70th birthday. The fire department was only a few blocks away. On Christmas morning of 2015, the house was the target of arson and saved when a passerby noticed and reported flames. It was transferred from the Clinton Birthplace Foundation to the NPS in 2010. It is now the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home, a national historic site and part of the National Park Service system. It was just a home in a quiet neighborhood then. SCENE & HEARD: Landscape extraordinaire is game to celebrate the big 6-0 ![]()
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