Word: lott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly identical words: "I know his type," or "I knew guys like him back home." And that's partly because they walked different paths even before they left their small hometowns. Virginia Clinton doted on her son so much that she turned over the master bedroom to him. Iona Lott, however, recalls that "people used to say an only child would be spoiled and selfish. And I was determined he wouldn't be that way." She made Trent share everything, including the pony she got him before he was 10, when the family still lacked an indoor toilet...
...Lott and Clinton are also five years apart, a gap that feels like a whole generation. Clinton came of age in the late 1960s, surrounded by the Eastern elite: at Georgetown University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He protested for racial justice and against the war in Vietnam. He grew a beard, didn't inhale and was as undisciplined then as now, studying in last-minute crams and failing to earn a degree at Oxford...
...Lott defined himself in a very different time and place: the Mississippi of the late 1950s and early '60s, a state infamous for its violent resistance to black equality, even as it began to offer undreamed-of opportunities to the bright children of blue-collar whites. Lott, the son of a schoolteacher and a sharecropper turned shipyard pipe fitter, not only could get loans to enter the University of Mississippi, the state's top nursery of political talent; he also joined a prestigious fraternity, Sigma...
...tidy as Clinton was sloppy, Lott dressed as crisply as a Sears-catalog model, showed up on time with his homework done and protested nothing. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War made much of an impression on him. "I and my classmates came up in more of a positive, upbeat, 1950s kind of great time," says Lott. "We didn't think about national issues...
...Lott regards Clinton as part of a generation reared in a more "permissive" and "anti-Establishment" atmosphere. He groups Clinton in a class of such other young Democratic Governors as Ray Mabus of Mississippi and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, who "went off to school at places like Harvard and Yale and then came back to instruct their fellow Southerners in the errors of our ways...