Get to Know Former President Bill Clinton
The former president will address the DNC on Wednesday.
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Getting Reacquainted with a Former President - From his presidential policies to the infamous sex scandal with a White House intern, BET.com takes a look at the life of President Bill Clinton, who will address the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. – Britt Middleton (Photo: Mathias Kniepeiss/Getty Images)
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Early Beginnings - William Jefferson Blythe III was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his father was killed in a car accident, his mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy, remarried and young Bill took the last name of his stepfather, Roger Clinton Sr. (Photo: clintonlibrary.gov)
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A Chance Meeting - A gifted saxophone player, Clinton was also a star in the classroom. In high school, he visited the White House as a delegate representing Boys Nation, a civics program run by the American Legion, where he met President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden. The encounter influenced him to pursue a career in politics. (Photo: clintonlibrary.gov)
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Ivy League Credentials - Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973. (Photo: clintonlibrary.gov)
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Love Birds - Clinton met Hillary Rodham while attending Yale in 1971 and the couple married on Oct. 11, 1975. Their only child, Chelsea, was born Feb. 27, 1980. (Photo: clintonlibrary.gov)
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