[3][4][5] While Roger and Virginia Cassidy divorced in 1962 they were remarried again shortly after, with Bill adopting the Clinton surname.
[11] Eventually Clinton sold the Buick dealership and moved, with his family, to a four hundred-acre farm a few miles west of Hot Springs.
[14] Roger Sr. and Virginia divorced in 1962, but remarried a few months later, after which his stepson took the surname Clinton at the Garland County Courthouse.
[9] He wrote, in My Life, "Maybe I even wanted to do something nice" for Roger Sr.[15][6] Clinton was said to have suffered from alcoholism and to have been abusive towards his family.
[18] Clinton was eventually reconciled with his stepson when Bill drove down from Georgetown over several weekends to visit him at the Duke Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, after he became ill;[19][20][21] this was a journey of some 200 miles.