Clinton Administrations - Education
Education
Clinton entered Georgetown University in 1964. As a college student coming of age in the heat of the social turmoil of the 1960s, he was committed to the movement against the Vietnam War (1959–75) and to the civil rights struggle. In 1966 he worked as a summer intern for Arkansas senator J. William Fulbright, who was at that time the leading antiwar spokesman in the U.S. Senate. Clinton was still a college student in Washington, D.C., when Martin Luther King Jr., was killed, and during the riots that followed King's assassination he and a friend used Clinton's car to deliver food and medical supplies to besieged neighborhoods.
Clinton graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs. It was already clear to those who knew him that he was a natural politician. Clinton had served as president of his freshman and sophomore class at Georgetown, although he lost the...
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