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Little known fact - Clinton was a Rhodes scholar, but he never received a degree from Oxford (too busy not inhaling and travelling to the Soviet Union?).
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Yup, he took the scholarship but never finished the work. He was evidently too busy protesting the US government and its policies as well as getting laid, to bother with the work he was receiving money to do.
Actually it doesn't sound like all that much changed between then and his presidency.
One other thing that always bothered me about Clinton was the fact that through all the years of his presidency and the various scandals, etc. his weight went up and down, but he didn't seem to age much. Every other president I have been old enough to observe aged visibly within the first year or two of taking office. Even the feckless Carter looked like he aged 15 years during the 4 years of his presidency. Reagan was pretty old when he took office, but the vitality that he had when elected was sucked out of him during his terms leaving him a ragged husk when he left office. George Bush senior aged quite a bit during his years in office and George Jr. has gotten noticeably grayer in the year and a half he has been in office.
My feeling is that presidents who really invest themselves in the job and take it seriously are eaten alive by the job. 8 years is probably about all the time a truly dedicated and serious individual could take in the office before it killed them. Clinton failed to take the job as seriously as it NEEDS to be taken and he just floated through his terms with little damage done to himself.
Clinton was a frat boy/class president type. Happy to be popular (and the presidency can be the biggest popularity contest around) but he was never thrilled with the responsibility and avoided it whenever possible.