Clinton childhood home in Hope, Ark., now part of National Park Service

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HOPE, Ark. — Former President Bill Clinton dedicated his boyhood home in Hope on Saturday as part of the National Park Service, and he used the occasion to say that the country is having hard times because people are too focused on money and not enough on each other.

Clinton told about 400 people on a windy and sunny afternoon that growing up without a television led him to focus on people and the stories they told.

“We here of a certain age were raised to see everyone. My grandfather taught me to see people without regard for the color of their skin,” Clinton said.

Clinton lived in the white, two-story home with his mother, Virginia, and her parents, Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, though the home remained the focus of Clinton’s family life for years afterward. Clinton recalled that his grandfather would serve both black and white customers at his grocery store, an uncommon business practice during segregation.

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