Over forty-thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.  Of the world’s 193 countries, citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home,  the home he shared with his widowed mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy.  The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between.  Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...   more »

Over forty thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.  Of the world’s  193 countries,  citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home,  the home he shared with his mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy.  The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between.  Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...   more »

Congressmen Mike Ross (D-Arkansas) and Dennis Cardoza (D-California) visited the Clinton Birthplace Foundation on February 9th, 2006. The congressmen briefed the board of directors on the status of House Bill (H.R. 4192). This bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to designate the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope, Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National Park System.

Foundation Board Member Parker Westbrook, Foundation Executive Director Richelle Rodgers, Congressman Dennis Cardoza, Congressman Mike Ross, University of Arkansas Community College Chancellor Charles Welch, and Arkansas State Representative Chris Thomason (D-AK)

Congressmen Mike Ross (D-Arkansas) and Dennis Cardoza (D-California) visited the Clinton Birthplace Foundation on February 9th, 2006. The congressmen briefed the board of directors on the status of House Bill (H.R. 4192). This bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to designate the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope, Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National Park System.

The Clinton Birthplace Foundation has acquired another of President Clinton's childhood homes. This home is located at 321 E. 13^th Street in Hope, Arkansas. The Clinton's lived in this home from 1950 to 1953, when they moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The foundation is planning a celebration of this acquistion during 2006. Click here to be added to our mailing list and you will receive information about this event as it becomes available.