1972 Future Pres Bill Clinton and future First Lady Hillary Rodham posed outside Yale Law School

[iluvtennis]

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Clinton Presidential Library@WJCLibrary
We’re celebrating #ArchivesU in the #archiveshashtagparty! In Jan of 1972, future Pres Bill Clinton and future First Lady Hillary Rodham posed outside Yale Law School. Photo courtesy of the Clinton Foundation.

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Love 😍 seeing this photo from 51 years ago.

[Karadeniz]

1. So sweet!!!

[Trueblue Texan]

2. If your parents had seen this dude back then...

...would they have ever expected him to become president of the USA? I doubt it! Don't judge a book by its cover.

[JoseBalow]

12. The times they are a-changin'

[senseandsensibility]

25. OMG

Adorable!

[JudyM]

31. +1

What a sweet, playful look.

[milestogo]

3. Dirty hippies

[JHB]

11. It's actually not funny at all

That photo, or one from around that time, was spammed all over the place by conservatives whipping up hippie-hate against them. After all, they didn't want moderate Republicans (actual moderates, who had not yet been politically exterminated) thinking they could work with these two.

[milestogo]

15. Thanks for the scold.

Its why I keep coming back to DU.

[senseandsensibility]

19. May I borrow that line?

I can see many occasions when it would come in handy.

[milestogo]

30. You may.

[Boomerproud]

4. Ah, to be young again.

[housecat]

22. I'll pass

[SpankMe]

5. They should go to that exact same spot today...

...and recreate the photo. It'd be cool.

[iluvtennis]

9. Yes, that would be cool 😎. n/t

[calimary]

13. They ABSOLUTELY should go to that exact same spot today, and recreate the photo!

It'd be an amazing historical side-by-side comparison. One for the history books.

[Traildogbob]

6. Dooood, and dooooodet!

I love that picture. Bet they loved jam bands. Dead heads.

[paleotn]

7. Get a haircut, Bill.

[Sancho]

8. I was an undergraduate at that time...slightly younger than the Clintons, and my hair...

...looked a lot like Bill.

[iluvtennis]

10. 😍.

[calimary]

14. And I hung out with guys who had hair like that.

The campus radio station and newspaper offices were full of them. Great way to meet men back then, because there weren't many girls interested in either of those activities, at least not yet. One of those guys eventually turned into my husband.

I think the ratio at the radio station at the time was 60 guys to 4 girls. How could you miss?

[Trueblue Texan]

18. yep I also married one of those long-haired hippies...

...next month we'll have our 44th wedding anniversary.

[Sancho]

20. Yep...my wife's skirt was about an inch above her butt and she had straight hair parted...

... in the middle.

We just had our 45th. She taught school 41 years and retired in 2020.

[Trueblue Texan]

24. Congratulations and happy anniversary! nt

[JoseBalow]

29. That's a pretty short skirt!

[calimary]

21. Hey! Happy Anniversary (a little in advance...)!

We're at Year 47. And at the Grandparents' level now. Can't believe how fast it's gone. And he still has his hair, although much shorter and thinner. Total coverage, though, remarkably enough. But his dad died with a full head of hair, even at an advanced age.

[Trueblue Texan]

26. Congrats on the long marriage! AND the hair! LOL! nt

[housecat]

27. 52 here and so glad we made it this far

[iluvtennis]

28. One ended up your husband 😍. And that ration guys to girls - wow. m/t

[mitch96]

17. yeah, me too. I looked like that...nt

[tavernier]

16. I didn't know he was a ginger.

And she looks a little bit ginger too.

No wonder they had their feisty moments!

[senseandsensibility]

23. I was only in elementary school then

but that generation was the "soundtrack" of my entire childhood and young adulthood. The music, the attitude, the fashion are still influencing me to this day.