Bill Clinton
Once the most powerful man on earth. Yes, even former President Bill Clinton was a spectator to, and victim of, domestic violence. As he recalled to Time magazine, he was just 8 years old his mother married Roger Clinton, a car dealer from Arkansas and also an alcoholic and their home life was often punctuated by his stepfather’s violent outbursts. It’s said that, at the age of 15, Bill warned Roger never to hit his mother or half-brother ever again. Standing up to his father, he said, changed the trajectory of his life, Clinton later said.
