I haven’t read either Clinton’s or Nixon’s memoirs, but I have read their first lines. Nixon: “I was born in the house my father built.” Clinton: “Early on the morning of August 19, 1946, I was born under a clear sky after a violent summer storm to a widowed mother in the Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, a town of about six thousand in southwest Arkansas, thirty-three miles east of the Texas border at Texarkana.”