First In His Class (103 page)

Unruh, Paula, 456

Vaught, Carl, 451

Vaught, Mary Frances, 433

Vaught, Worley Oscar, 424, 433-34, 435, 451

Vereker, Katherine, 153, 374

Verveer, Phil, 61, 63, 70, 88, 313

Vietnam Moratorium Committee, 186

Vietnam War, 54, 64, 147, 148, 163, 165, 181-82, 217, 236, 255, 265, 272, 324

Clinton's opposition to, 67, 85-86, 94, 95, 97, 105, 107, 157, 162, 164, 174, 178-79, 186-87, 188-99, 200-205, 239, 453

political and public opposition to, 73, 85-86, 96, 97, 105-6, 110-11, 114, 127-28, 135-36, 151-52, 157-59, 162, 171, 177, 178-79, 183, 187-89, 224, 226-27, 267-68

Wagner, Carl, 381, 441, 442, 463

Walker, Martin, 135, 136, 154

Wallace, Doug, 298, 320, 326, 333, 334, 335, 336, 340, 348, 396

Wallace, George C., 16, 75, 114

Walls, Frances, 364

Wal-Mart, 369, 454, 459

Walsh, James, 57

Walters, Mrs. (nanny), 35

Ward, Tom, 103, 177-78

Washington Post,
19, 191-92, 194, 317, 388, 446

Wasserman, Gary, 64

Watergate scandal, 277, 285-86, 291-92, 296, 297, 307-15, 329, 369

Watts, Duke, 95, 148, 163

Waugh, Jim, 155, 156, 157

Weddington, Sarah, 343

Weicker, Lowell P., Jr., 227-28, 230, 232

Wellesley College, 246, 248, 255-59

Wexler, Anne, 227-28, 230, 231, 232, 233, 266

Weyerhaeuser timber company, 365-67

Whillock, Carl, 291, 295-96, 299, 301, 302, 303-4, 344

White, Frank, 376, 377, 378, 384, 385, 391, 393, 395, 397, 398, 402, 403, 406, 412, 429, 438, 446

White, John C., 274-75, 276, 278, 300, 380

White, Randy. 333-34, 361-62, 363, 364, 373, 379, 389, 391, 394-95, 448, 455

Whitewater investments, 302, 355-56, 373-74, 430, 431

Williams, Edward Bennett, 128

Williams, Lee, 81-82, 83, 84, 86, 114, 115, 170-71, 173

Williams, Nancy, 275, 276

Williams, Sir Edgar, 129, 132, 153, 164-65, 206, 223, 261

Williamson, Tom, 120, 124, 132, 133, 143, 187, 211, 243, 391

Willis, Carol, 294, 403, 414

Wilson, Rodney, 324

Witcover, Jules, 397

Woodward, C. Vann, 365

Wooldridge, Letha Ann, 48

Wright, Betsey, 275-76, 277, 283-84, 342, 349, 358, 391, 394, 397, 402, 404, 406, 408, 412-13, 420, 421, 422, 427, 431, 434, 435, 439, 440-41, 442, 443, 445, 446, 447, 450-51, 452-53, 454-455, 463-64

Wright, Georgie, 32

Wright, Lindsey and Jennings, 392

Yale Law Journal
, 226, 239, 246-47, 249

Yale Law School, 168, 198, 204, 208, 223, 231, 291, 297, 307, 308, 369

Clinton's first year at, 225-26, 233-45, 246-48, 259, 263-64

Clinton's third year at, 284, 285

faculty of, 235-37

pass-fail system at, 226, 288

Yale Review of Law and Social Action
, 249

Yale University, 127, 145

Yeldell, Carolyn,
see
Staley, Carolyn Yeldell

Yeldell, Linda, 94

Yeldell, Walter, 47

Young, Tommy, 148

Young Republicans, 62, 116, 255

Zaguskin, Yasha, 197, 216

William Jefferson Blythe III. Hope, Arkansas, 1950.

Virginia Kelley and William Jefferson Blythe.

Roger Clinton and Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton, with his mother and half-brother, Roger.

In a cosmopolitan resort town with big hands featured in all the top hotels and nightclubs, it was no embarrassment to play tenor sax for the award-winning high school dance band; or to lead the Pep Band during basketball season; or to form a jazz band and play riffs in the auditorium during lunch hour.

The young men of Boys Nation were invited to lunch with the senators from their state in the Senate Dining Room. Bill Clinton sat between Senator John McClelan(left) and Senator J. William Fulbright. Clinton had already studied Fulbright's life and career and considered the intellectual Arkansan his first political role model.

The highlight of Boys Nation was a visit to the Rose Garden. After a brief speech, President Kennedy greeted the boys, and Clinton made sure he was the first to shake his hand. Later, at graduation, when friends and teachers gave him their yearbooks, Clinton often turned to the page with this picture on it and signed below the photograph, which has subsequently become famous.

Georgetown, 1965. As the student officer responsible for making the incoming freshmen feel welcome, Clinton had the opportunity to make new friends and build his consituency at the same time. No one knew how to navigate the campus more skillfully.

The five seniors who shared a house on Potomat Avenue were “boringly respectable.” Within the wider spectrum of sixties behavior, Clinton and his housemates were trim and tame. Despite the war in Vietnam and the rioting following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Jr., Tom Campbell (right) thought of it as “a sort of never-never-land up there.”