By the time of the septuplets' tenth birthday in 2007, the family was declining most requests for interviews other than annual stories with Des Moines television station KCCI television and Ladies' Home Journal magazine.
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President Bill Clinton personally telephoned Mr. and Mrs. McCaughey to wish them his congratulations.
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They were born nine weeks prematurely in Des Moines to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey (pronounced "McCoy"), residents of the nearby town of Carlisle, Iowa.