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...Draft questions still plague Clinton," reported the Wall Street Journal on its front page last Friday. The item added that to fend off Republican attacks on this score, Clinton may feel compelled to pick as his running mate his erstwhile rival Bob Kerrey, who lost a leg and won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam...
Since shortly before the New Hampshire primary, Clinton has been accused of having dodged the draft. His opponents are hoping that impression will resonate with attacks on his character. That's politics, I suppose. But I've been disappointed to see how many of my colleagues in the press, in their coverage of Clinton, have referred to the matter as though draft dodging were proved. Well, it's not, and it can't be, because it's not true...
...summer of 1969, after the first year of his Rhodes scholarship, Clinton was indeed casting about for some way to avoid going to Vietnam -- not by evading the draft, but by taking advantage of one of a number of special deals that the system offered to young men who were well connected. One way was to enlist in the National Guard. That's how Dan Quayle was able to do military duty in his home state of Indiana...
...writes that he is on the brink of a decision to abandon the ROTC shield from the draft: "I am about resolved to go to England come hell or high water and take my chances." He is not referring to the risk of being run over by a double-deck bus on the Oxford High Street...
Cavazos said that within the next couple ofweeks she plans to draft a letter to thecommittee, which will be signed by the leaders ofall University gay organizations...