Bill Clinton: The Importance Of A Good Education

William Jefferson Clinton was born August 19, 1946 in Hope Arkansas. His father William Jefferson Blythe died in a car crash several months before he was born. Leaving Clinton to be raised by just his mother. Clinton’s mother moved to New Orleans to complete two years of nursing school and Clinton stayed with his grandparents. Clinton’s grandparents were very strict and they made sure to instill a very good work ethic and show him the importance of a good education. Clintons mother return home to him with a nursing degree in 1950, and later on that year she married a car salesperson named Roger Clinton. Two years later, they moved from Hope, to Hot Springs Arkansas. Clinton’s parents and grandparents were not religious people but Clinton became a very strong Baptist at a very young age.

Clinton loved the jazz music that was performed at his church. He began playing the jazz saxophone and by the time he graduated, he was one of the best sax players in the city. Clinton began to grow tired of his stepfathers drinking and abuse toward his mother and younger brother. At fourteen years old Clinton had, had enough he told his step father that if he wanted to keep abusing his mother and younger brother that he was going to have to go through him. The abuse stopped but the drinking did not. Clinton’s mother got a divorce in 1962. Clinton went to Hot Springs high school a segregated all white school. He was an amazing student and a star member of the jazz band. The principal of the school wanted to produce nothing but students who were going to be devoted to public service, which caused her to bond with Clinton. In June 1963, Clinton attended Arkansas boy’s state. Here is where he was elected the representative to the American boy’s nation. He received an invitation to meet president John F. Kennedy in the white house rose