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Article: The Place Where Clinton's Coming From; To Understand the Candidate, Walk the Streets of Hot Springs
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 30, 1992
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Hope gets you nowhere in the Bill Clinton story. As a small
town in Arkansas and the birthplace of a potential president, the
name carries with itan unavoidable poetry, but its importance
beyond that falls into the realm of myth. No one named Bill Clinton
was born in Hope. The boy brought into the world there on Aug. 19,
1946, was called Billy Blythe. He became Bill Clinton years later
in Hot Springs, only an hour up the road but an altogether different
place, a city of secrets and vapors and ancient corruption and yet
somehow purely American idealism. Hot Springs gets you somewhere.
Hot Springs is a place where when you ask county historian Inez
Cline if she has any information ...