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
BLAND HILLARY CLINTON AMERICA S FIRST COUPLE a Chicago suburb Her parents Hugh and Dorothy Rodham were a business owner and a homemaker respectively Hillary went to public schools Influenced by her parents she was a Republican in her youth As a teenager she joined the Young Republicans and was active in the First United Methodist Church In 1965 Hillary went to Wellesley College in Massachusetts Her political views changed while she studied political science and she became a Democrat She began to support the civil rights movement women s rights and protests against the Vietnam War She soon joined the Democratic Party In 1969 she graduated with a degree in political science Hillary went on to Yale Law School There she developed a strong interest in family law and issues affecting children She earned her law degree in 1973 QUICK FACT Hillary says that in junior high she wrote to NASA inquiring about entering into the space program but was told they didn't take women Io
MEET THE CLINTONs THE CLINTONS ENTER PUBLIC LIFE In 1970 Clinton entered Yale Law School While there he met Hillary Rodham Together they worked for George McGovern's presidential campaign during the summer and fall of 1972 The following year they both graduated from law school Clinton returned to Arkansas to teach at the University of Arkansas School of Law while Rodham briefly went to Washington where she worked for the House of Representatives staff during the Before they became one of the most influential couples in politics Bill and Hillary were just two of many law students at Yale II
