The Clintons’ Berkeley Summer of Love
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BERKELEY, Calif. — For Senator Clinton, the most vivid memories of the summer she spent here in 1971 working at a radical law firm likely concern not politics or legal work, but romance.
That summer was the first time she lived under the same roof with her new boyfriend and future husband, Bill Clinton. The pair, both students at Yale Law School, had been dating for only a month or so when Mr. Clinton proposed that he join her in California and abandon his plans to be a Southern states coordinator for Senator McGovern’s presidential campaign.
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