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This is a glimpse into the past -- the fall of 1969 -- and into the lives of two Americans abroad, Frank Aller and Bill Clinton. I shared with them a sparsely furnished row house in Oxford. Frank was there to learn about Chinese history and culture; Bill's field, not surprisingly, was political science. But in addition to our formal studies, we were enrolled in a permanent, floating, teacherless seminar on Vietnam. Like many of our contemporaries, we felt that the war was profoundly wrong. Many of us had to decide what to do if we were ordered by our government...
Clinton and I have remained close since Oxford. I've always suspected that eventually his prominence as a political figure would require me to write about him. Readers are entitled to know if a journalist has personal ties to a subject of public attention. Therefore I've been prepared to acknowledge the bias of friendship the first time Clinton's name appeared under my byline...
...Oxford years, Trott sowed the seeds for friends' future misunderstandings of his character. MacDonogh points out that because Trott became so much of "an honorary Englishman" in his years at Oxford, his friends had trouble understanding his return to Germany in 1933 to work against the Nazi regime...
...Oxford, Trott made several influential friends, including intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin, David Astor, son of Lady Astor, and several Labour Members of Parliament. Unfortunately, in these and other friendships which Trott made later in the 1930s, he showed a lack of foresight which limited his influence in England during Churchill's administration...
...social standards of the public high school have come to dominate Harvard rather than the prep school," he says. "When I was an undergraduate, everybody wore Oxford shirts and socks as opposed to baseball caps and fishnet underwear...