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Along with charges of womanizing, marijuana use and an alleged undisclosed Vietnam War draft notice, Clinton has suffered perhaps equally damaging criticisms about his polished campaign skills. It is his uncanny public rapport, some say, that causes voters to doubt the substance behind the frontrunner...
Clinton's evasive answers about marijuana useand a 1969 draft notice--issues exploited by theNew York press last week--only contributed tovoter unease about what pundits call "thecharacter question...
Clinton has established a reputation as a"robo-candidate," weathering scrutiny of hismarital fidelity, draft record and financialethics--not to mention the marijuana he "didn'tinhale" while a student at Oxford...
...tone and content, this letter is totally consistent with the now famous one that Clinton wrote to Colonel Holmes three months later. Together, the two letters bracket the period when Rosenbaum and others suggest Clinton was confident that he had successfully dodged the draft...
Such was his state of mind. Frank's was even more tormented. Like Bill, he had initially decided on one way of coping with the dilemma posed by the war and the draft, then had second thoughts. After a miserable year, he concluded that it was a mistake to cut himself off from his family and his country, so he went home to Spokane to sort out his life. He was unable to do so. On Sept. 12, 1971, he killed himself. I called Bill with the news. There was nothing slick in his grief...