Word: draft
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Clinton was never called for the draft. His stated intention to enter an ROTC program had already given him two months of exemption. The Nixon Administration cut back on the draft. When the new draft lottery system began on Dec. 1, Clinton drew a very high number (311), and so was never summoned...
Frank Aller, the housemate who resisted the draft, would become a casualty nonetheless. After living for a time as a fugitive in England, he returned home to try to sort out his life. Not long afterward, he shot himself...
There was some evidence in New Hampshire that the press was considerably more fascinated by Clinton's behavior in 1969 than the voters were. The morning after Clinton appeared on ABC's Nightline to talk about his Vietnam draft status, a morning when the letter was front-page news across New Hampshire, Clinton took five questions from an audience in Concord. The topics were college scholarships, day care, public education, Japan bashing and the likelihood of a tax increase...
...with honor and bravery. And some with distinction. Some went to the war unreeling John Wayne movies in their head and then changed their mind. They found that the reality was viciously different from their fantasies. But human nature is not rescinded, and most young American men of draft age did not want to go to Southeast Asia to be shot at, so they did what they could -- honorably or less than honorably -- to avoid...
...matter of priorities -- an outright theft of Harkin's nonspecific field-of-dreams answer to how he'd fund his "new New Deal." Still, says Cuomo, I can't run without a budget; but then again it would be "presumptuous" to call off those who are trying to draft...