Clinton’s London ‘Affair’ Just S-A-X

Bill Clinton “slept with his saxophone” at Oxford University, according to a woman student friend he shared a house with, who has now broken her silence on their relationship.

Sara Maitland told the Evening Standard in London a recent interview that the future U.S. President changed her life 20 years ago with his relaxed way with women and his support for feminism.

Maitland, a prominent British novelist, shared a house during their Oxford days with Clinton and Strobe Talbott, now Clinton’s adviser on relations with the former Soviet Union.

She said Clinton’s personal warmth impressed her as much as his political acumen and said he took her to her first feminist meeting.

“It was Bill and the Vietnam War that politicized me. He introduced me to the idea that politics was more interesting than anything else,” Maitland was quoted as saying.

The newspaper said Maitland would not discuss sleeping arrangements at the house they shared except to say: “Bill slept with his saxophone; at least it was always by his bed.”

She said he introduced her to feminism and took her to a meeting with feminist Germaine Greer.

“Bill liked female company and found the boy’s world that was Oxford more difficult than men who had come from (all-male English private schools). We became such good friends; it wasn’t just S-E-X,” she said.

Maitland said she had danced with Prince Charles in 1967 and added: “I must be one of the few women who’ve danced with both the future king of England and the President of the U.S.A.”