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==Early life and education== Talbott was born in [[Dayton, Ohio]], to Helen Josephine (Large) and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d3etIUH-FyMC&q=%22Nelson+S.+(a+businessman)+and+Helen+Josephine+(Large)+Talbott%22|title = Contemporary Authors|date = May 2003| publisher=Gale Research International, Limited |isbn = 9780787651961}}</ref> He attended the [[Hotchkiss School]] in Connecticut and graduated in 1968 from [[Yale University]], where he had been chairman of the ''[[Yale Daily News]]''. He was awarded Yale's [[Alpheus Henry Snow Prize]]. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in 1967β68, belonged to a society of juniors and seniors called [[Saint Anthony Hall]], and was elected to the exclusive [[Elizabethan Club]]. He became a friend of future President [[Bill Clinton]] when both were [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholars]] at the [[University of Oxford]];<ref name="Indy">{{cite news|title=Strobe lights up the world stage for his friend Bill... |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/strobe-lights-up-the-world-stage-for-his-friend-bill-praise-is-mixed-with-some-doubt-as-mr-clinton-promotes-an-old-chum-at-the-state-department-writes-rupert-cornwell-from-washington-1405466.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/strobe-lights-up-the-world-stage-for-his-friend-bill-praise-is-mixed-with-some-doubt-as-mr-clinton-promotes-an-old-chum-at-the-state-department-writes-rupert-cornwell-from-washington-1405466.html |archive-date=May 25, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|date=January 8, 1994|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=September 9, 2009 | location=London | first=Rupert | last=Cornwell}}</ref> during his studies there he translated [[Nikita Khrushchev|Nikita Khrushchev's]] memoirs into English.<ref name="Indy"/>
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