He attended Oxford University during his junior year of college.
Earned his B.A. in philosophy in 1963 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill while on a Morehead Scholarship.
Attended the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.
At UNC, he was an All-South soccer player and still retains the single-game scoring record for the university-five goals against North Carolina State University on October 18, 1962.
Maternal grandfather, William J. Fulton, served two terms as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois.