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Clinton's albatross -- now that Gennifer Flowers' accusations of adultery have receded into the half-life of media memory -- is his convoluted account of dealings with his Arkansas draft board back in 1969. Clinton has bumped into questions about avoiding induction into the military during the Vietnam War since his early days in Arkansas politics, and his responses amount to a tortuous thicket of incomplete and not entirely compatible explanations...
...pressed on the issue of his draft status during the Vietnam War, Clinton has backpeddled his way to the edge of a political cliff...
While he once said that his not being drafted was "just a fluke," Clinton has acknowledged that he used an ROTC program to temporarily avoid the draft and tried to used his political connections to win an exemption from serving...
...draft will affirm free speech," said Elizabeth P. Berke, a reporter at the student newspaper. "I don't think students want to be restricted...
...venue--the Veterans of Foreign Wars building on Huron Avenue--was the perfect complement to Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's troublesome draft record. But aside from that and the impressive crowd, the meeting was a complete travesty...