Bill Clinton

===Law school===
After Oxford, Clinton attended Yale Law School and earned a [[Juris Doctor]] (J.D.) degree in 1973.<ref name="First in His Class" /> In 1971, he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham, in the [[Lillian Goldman Law Library|Yale Law Library]]; she was a class year ahead of him.<ref name="HRCBio">{{cite web | url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/about/first-ladies/hillaryclinton | work=[[whitehouse.gov]] | title=Hillary Rodham Clinton | via=[[NARA|National Archives]] | access-date=August 26, 2011}}</ref> They began dating and were soon inseparable. After only about a month, Clinton postponed his summer plans to be a coordinator for the [[George McGovern]] [[George McGovern presidential campaign, 1972|campaign]] for the [[1972 United States presidential election]] in order to move in with her in California.<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://www.nysun.com/national/clintons-berkeley-summer-of-love/66982 | title=The Clintons' Berkeley Summer of Love | first=Josh | last=Gerstein | work=The New York Sun | date=November 26, 2007 | access-date=May 9, 2009}}</ref> The couple continued [[cohabitating|living together]] in New Haven when they returned to law school.<ref name="nys-rad">{{Cite news |url=http://www.nysun.com/national/hillary-clintons-radical-summer/66933/ |title=Hillary Clinton's Radical Summer |first=Josh | last=Gerstein |work=The New York Sun |date=November 26, 2007}}</ref>

Clinton eventually [[1972 United States presidential election in Texas#McGovern campaign|moved to Texas with Rodham in 1972]] to take a job leading McGovern's effort there. He spent considerable time in [[Dallas]], at the campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue, where he had an office. Clinton worked with future two-term [[List of mayors of Dallas|mayor of Dallas]] [[Ron Kirk]],<ref>{{cite web|last1=Medley|first1=Jasmine|title=William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Center and the Clinton School of Public Service|date=July 20, 2013|url=http://nasje.org/william-jefferson-clinton-presidential-center-and-the-clinton-school-of-public-service/|publisher=National Association of State Judicial Educators|access-date=November 22, 2016|archive-date=March 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305132811/https://nasje.org/william-jefferson-clinton-presidential-center-and-the-clinton-school-of-public-service/|url-status=dead}}</ref> future [[List of governors of Texas|governor of Texas]] [[Ann Richards]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Slater|first1=Wayne|title=Texas stumping in '72 helped shape Clinton's campaign|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/03/01/from-the-archives-lone-star-stumping-gig-in-72-race-helped-shape-hillary-clintons-08-bid |newspaper=Dallas Morning News |date=December 16, 2007 |access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref> and then unknown television director and filmmaker [[Steven Spielberg]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Felsenthal|first1=Carol|title=George McGovern and Bill Clinton: the State of the Friendship|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-felsenthal/george-mcgovern-and-bill_b_98845.html  |work=The Huffington Post |date=May 7, 2008 |access-date=November 22, 2016}}</ref>