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...state took a long time to recover after it sent its prized leader Jeff Davis to the U.S. Senate in 1907, only to have him laughed into fecklessness by a more sophisticated audience. The state has tried to send more presentable leaders to Washington ever since -- men like Fulbright, Dale Bumpers and David Pryor...
That glimpse of Washington, where the powerful Senator William Fulbright redeemed the clownish Arkansas Governor, helped banish ideas of playing jazz in smoky nightclubs. Clinton asked his high school counselor, Edith Irons, what college offered a good program in foreign service. The only one she knew, offhand, was Georgetown, but she would look up others...
...heard from his school of choice, and Irons says she had visions of her prize pupil not entering college that year. Clinton says he was not worried because the University of Arkansas took any student with decent grades; he had long assumed he would be going there, where Fulbright had been the college president before going to Washington. Clinton had become familiar with Fayetteville, the Ozark campus town, during his summers at band camps, and he wrote his junior paper on the university. He had acquired a circle of friends in that corner of the state -- and even another surrogate...
...with Smith. "Yes. At Yale I had to work at a number of jobs. At Georgetown I had only one outside job. It was my first time away from home, and I had a whole range of things to learn." Also, Arkansas kept intruding. His one job was in Fulbright's Senate office. Clinton took roommates from Georgetown to visit Arkansas, and friends from there came to see him. Staley was visiting him when, in the wake of Dr. King's assassination, Clinton drove food to churches in the riot area. Like Fulbright himself, Clinton won a Rhodes scholarship when...
...fight vigorously to stay alive. They compete not only for students but also for faculty and research grants. Such competition, though draining and distracting, can stimulate creativity and force administrators to remain attentive to student needs. "U.S. students pay for their education," says Ulrich Littmann, head of the German Fulbright Commission, "and demand a commensurate value for what they -- or their parents...