Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, in 1946; his father died before he was born and he later took his stepfather's name. His childhood home was a troubled one; his stepfather, a gambler and alcoholic, was abusive to his mother and stepbrother. When Bill was fifteen, he made it clear that he would mete out violence if the abuse continued.
The young Bill had a great love for music and tampered with the idea of being a saxophonist, but in 1963 he visited the White House as part of a delegation of the American Legion Boys' Nation, met JFK and decided on a life of public service. With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington DC. At university, he became involved with the civil rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam war. In 1966, he worked as an intern for a summer in the offices of the Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who was at that time the leader of the anti-war movement in the Senate. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 with a B.S. in International Affairs, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University where he studied philosophy, economics and politics. He developed an interest in rugby union, playing for Oxford and later for Little Rock Rugby Club in Arkansas. In later life, he admitted to smoking cannabis but insisted that he did not inhale.
After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School obtaining a Juris Doctor degree in 1973. While at Yale he met law student Hillary Rodham, they married in 1975 and their only child, Chelsea, was born in 1980.
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