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...beyond Arkansas now. He's more Yale and Oxford than Arkansas." That was the snap judgment, later modified, of columnist John Brummett, the best of the journalistic Clinton watchers in Little Rock. When several people told me that Bill Clinton brought them into the state and took them on tours of its beauties, Brummett said, "I wonder what they could be. Maybe he should take me on one of those tours." When Hillary Rodham first came to Arkansas, it took Clinton nine hours to drive the one-hour's distance from Little Rock's airport to his mother's home...
...compromises and is accused of being slick. He tries to please, omnidirectionally, and is accused of pandering. I ask if he ever considered being anything but a politician. Yes, he answers, a doctor, because he saw his mother and her fellow nurses deferring to them. Then a musician. At Oxford, when he thought his opposition to the Vietnam War would preclude a political career in the patriotic South, he seriously considered becoming a journalist. "I would at least comment on the great events of my time." Why had he rejected those careers? "I would not have been great at them...
...life. The marks of a small town are still on him, the intimate questions asked even of strangers, the touching and hugging at every entry to a house, the relaxed slouching walk Clinton shares with his mother. He may have done some bustling around the world of Yale and Oxford, but his preferred rhythms are the slow ones of his birthplace...
When I repeat to Stephen Smith, a key aide in Clinton's first term as Governor, John Brummett's claim that Clinton is more Yale and Oxford than Arkansas, Smith says, "He is more Georgetown than Yale." I ask Clinton if he agrees 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...
...this period, too, Clinton discovered a dangerous talent, part of his gregarious and ingratiating way with all his friends: a puppylike eagerness and drive to please. A man who was at Oxford with him tells me, "Bill was one of the two people I have known who were just amazingly successful with women. You would hear him and say to yourself, 'No one is going to believe that line,' but they...