Bill Clinton but he left early to return to the United States and did not receive a degree from Oxford. During his time at Oxford, Clinton befriended fellow American Rhodes Scholar Frank Aller. In 1969, Aller received a draft letter that mandated deployment to the Vietnam War. Aller's 1971 suicide had an influential impact on Clinton. British writer and feminist Sara Maitland said of Clinton, "I remember Bill and Frank Aller taking me to a pub in Walton Street in the summer term of 1969 and talking to me about the Vietnam War. I knew nothing about it, and when Frank began
DeWitt Clinton Blair DeWitt Clinton Blair DeWitt Clinton Blair (September 6, 1833 – June 3, 1915) was an American philanthropist and industrialist. He was born in Gravel Hill, New Jersey (later renamed Blairstown), was the son of John Insley Blair and Nancy Anne Locke. He continued his father's varied business interests and philanthropy. A graduated from Princeton University with the class of 1856, he served as a Princeton trustee from 1900-1909 and was instrumental in expanding the campus and buildings (Insley, East and Locke) of Blair Presbyterian Academy. On April 21, 1864 he married Mary Anna Kimball (1837 – February 12, 1914) with