BLAND HILLARY CLINTON AMERICA S FIRST COUPLE in Arkansas she worked on programs that aided children and the disadvantaged and maintained a successful law practice During President Clinton's presidential campaign Hillary greeted voters gave speeches and was one of his chief advisers In 1999 Hillary launched her candidacy for a U S Senate seat representing the state of New York where the Clintons had moved following the end of Bill s presidency Eventually Hillary would become a presidential hopeful and the secretary of state under President Barack
CHAPTER 1 MEET THE CLINTONS illiam Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19 1946 in Hope Arkansas a small town near the Texas Oklahoma border His father a traveling salesman died in a car crash three months before Bill was born A few years later his mother Virginia Dell Blythe married Roger Clinton He moved the family to Hot Springs Arkansas An alcoholic Roger sometimes beat Virginia the two divorced but then remarried As a gesture to help hold the family together Bill eventually took his stepfather s name A BILL S EARLY INTEREST IN POLITICS Bill Clinton became interested in politics at an early age In high school he traveled to Washington D C as a senator of the American Legion Boys Nation There he met President John F Kennedy an encounter that solidified his political
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON AMERICA S FIRST COUPLE Clinton attended Georgetown University in Washington D C earning a bachelor s degree in international studies in 1968 During his junior and senior years he worked for Democratic senator J William Fulbright of Arkansas chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee whom Clinton later called his mentor Fulbright was an outspoken FO President John F Kennedy shakes hands with future president Bill Clinton in
MEET THE CLINTONs QUICK FACT President Clinton plays the saxophone and once considered becoming a professional musician critic of the Vietnam War and Clinton opposed the war as well He received a draft deferment for the first year of his studies as a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in England in 1968 He later attempted to extend the deferment by applying to the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps ROTC at the University of Arkansas Law School He soon changed his plans and returned to Oxford thus making himself eligible for the draft but he was not chosen HILLARY S EVOLVING POLITICS Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26 1947 in Chicago Illinois She and her two younger brothers grew up in Park
