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Lois Romano. "Returning to Hope for a Sad Farewell; Clinton Eulogizes Great-Uncle, a Father Figure Who Helped Raise Him." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1997. HighBeam Research. 2 Apr. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Lois Romano. "Returning to Hope for a Sad Farewell; Clinton Eulogizes Great-Uncle, a Father Figure Who Helped Raise Him." The Washington Post. 1997. HighBeam Research. (April 2, 2015). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-722347.html
Lois Romano. "Returning to Hope for a Sad Farewell; Clinton Eulogizes Great-Uncle, a Father Figure Who Helped Raise Him." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1997. Retrieved April 02, 2015 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-722347.html
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President Clinton today returned to his birthplace and a time of simplicity to bury one of the only father figures he has ever known.
He was "a man without wealth or power and without position or any pretense, but who . . . was smart and wise, profoundly good," said Clinton in eulogizing his great-uncle Henry Oren "Buddy" Grisham, who died Monday at 92.
In an intimate chapel on Main Street, packed with those who once knew the president as "Billy," Clinton told of how his uncle always opened up his home to him when Clinton needed guidance in his life. He said the only time Grisham telephoned him was prior to his 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial reelection campaign, when the pundits were accurately predicting Clinton was in trouble. …
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