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...massive mistrust he has aroused is maddeningly difficult to counter because it stems from so many sources. It can no longer be dispelled by refuting specific charges -- not all of which are terribly important anyway. There are some indications that more voters are troubled by allegations of adultery and draft evasion than will admit it to pollsters. But youthful experimentation with pot is a proven non- issue in the case of candidates who admit it straightforwardly; it had no effect on the 1988 campaigns of Bruce Babbitt or Albert Gore Jr. or the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
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...written by Cliff Jackson, then a fellow Rhodes scholar and now a bitter political opponent of Clinton's in Arkansas. In it, Jackson informed a friend back in the U.S. that Clinton "received his induction notice last week." Clinton, who earlier said he was never actually drafted, now asserted that yes, he received an induction letter in England. It came by surface mail, he said, and specified a date that had already passed; he got in touch with his local draft board and was told he could finish his term at Oxford. He did not mention it before, he said...
...could forget a draft notice? At any rate, the basic story does not change: torn between opposition to what he regarded as an immoral war in Vietnam and his sense of duty to country, Clinton kept himself out of the draft for a few crucial months by enrolling in an ROTC unit at the University of Arkansas that he never actually joined; he eventually gave up that deferment but drew such a high lottery number that he was never inducted...
...sympathize with the young Clinton's moral turmoil about it; he was certainly not the only member of his generation to do everything he legally could to stay out. But even some of his supporters have trouble swallowing Clinton's contention that his eventual decision to submit to the draft was a moral act, when he wrote at the time that he wanted -- even at the age of 23 -- to maintain his future "political viability." The latest dustup about what kind of letter he received in England can only reinforce an impression that he is saying whatever he judges...