As part of his class' observation of President's Day, my 11-year-old nephew had to give an oral report on a President. He chose Bill Clinton. I was fascinated to hear about #42 through his eyes.• He was born Bill Blythe
• His father died in a car accident before Bill was born
• He and his mother lived with his grandparents in Hope, AR
• They moved to Hot Springs when she got a better job in a bigger hospital
• His mother married a man named Roger Clinton who adopted Bill
• He played saxophone in the high school band
• He admired President Kennedy and memorized Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Had a Dream" speech
• He went to Yale and Oxford, and these are very good colleges
• He met his wife Hillary at college
• He was Attorney General and Governor in AR
• When he was President, there was a low crime rate and peace between England and Ireland
• His daughter Chelsea brought a cat, Socks, to the White House
• She found Socks when he was a kitten, living under a bush near her piano teacher's house
• Socks wrote books and is the first cat to have his own video game
• At first Socks didn't like Buddy, the President's dog
• He was impeached and acquitted
• He is one of the most popular former Presidents
• He had heart trouble and is now a vegan
• Socks died of cancer recently
My nephew got an A-. He lost points not for content but because he didn't look at the audience as he spoke about Bill Clinton.
