won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford. During his two years in England, Clinton met many of the friends and advisors on whom he would later depend for political counsel.
In 1970, Clinton entered Yale Law School and met classmate Hillary Rodham, an outspoken law student who later became his wife.
Clinton then embarked on the political career he had been planning for most of his life. He was elected Arkansas' attorney general in 1976, and two years later became the youngest governor in America at age thirty-two. In 1980, the same year his daughter, Chelsea, was born, he lost his bid for reelection. After carefully examining his mistakes, he recaptured the office in 1982,
