He enrolled in many universities
In 1964, Clinton attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He earned a degree in international affairs there in 1968. His junior and senior years were spent working as an intern for Sen. J. William Fulbright, the Arkansas Democrat who served as the chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. During his freshman and sophomore years, he was voted student body president. Clinton, like many other young men of his time, opposed the war, and Fulbright was a vociferous opponent.
As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1968, he was granted a draft deferment for the first year of his studies. Later, he attempted to extend the deferment by applying to the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He quickly changed his mind and went back to Oxford, making him eligible for the draft, but he was not picked. While studying at Oxford, Clinton sent a letter to the head of the Arkansas ROTC program in which he expressed gratitude for "saving" him from the draft and expressed concern that his opposition to the war might harm his future "political viability." Clinton dabbled with marijuana during this time, and his assertion that he "didn't inhale" would later be widely mocked.
After earning his law degree from Yale University in 1973, Clinton joined the University of Arkansas School of Law's faculty and remained there until 1976. He unsuccessfully sought election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974. He married Hillary Rodham (Hillary Clinton), an attorney and fellow Yale Law graduate, in 1975. She went on to actively participate in his political career.
