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The house where Bill and Hillary Clinton were married and first lived together has been cleared to become a museum. The Fayetteville Planning Commission voted Monday to allow a museum in the residential zone. The move allows the Fayetteville Advertising Commission can go ahead with their plans. The advertising commission leases the one-bedroom, one-bathroom house from the University of Arkansas, where both Clintons were professors in 1975 and 1976. They lived together there from August 1975 to December 1976 and were married in the living room on Oct. 11, 1975. Advertising commission director Marilyn Heifner said the goal is to...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Bill Clinton reveled in the spotlight on Thursday as political friend and foe alike, including two presidents named Bush, helped him dedicate his $165 million presidential library, which highlights his achievements with a little bit of Monica Lewinsky mixed in. Only 91-year-old Gerald Ford was among former presidents absent, a group that grew smaller last summer with the death of Ronald Reagan. Democrat Jimmy Carter, 80, and Republican George Bush, 80, and his son, President Bush, and their wives, attended a rain-soaked ceremony on the bank of the Arkansas River. The event featured 30,000 of...