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...there is a new question: "What did you do in the war, Bill Clinton?" Just when the Arkansas Governor believed he had weathered Gennifer Flowers' unsubstantiated allegations of a 12-year affair between the two, Clinton was rocked by old charges that he dodged the draft during the height of the Vietnam War. The facts are convoluted and hotly contested, and the credibility of Clinton's accusers is in dispute. One, a retired Army colonel, has for over a decade been telling a diametrically opposite tale that exonerates Clinton. The other, a former official of Clinton's draft board...
...different than it was less than a month ago, and the truly salient point is even more troubling. Clinton insists that the death of four of his friends in Vietnam caused him to question his own avoidance of the conflict he detested. "So I voluntarily submitted myself to the draft," says Clinton. That was in the fall of 1969, when the draft lottery was about to go into effect -- a mechanism that shortly had Clinton drawing No. 311, meaning there was virtually no chance that he would be called. Yet if Clinton had really felt guilty about not serving...
Clinton passed a draft physical in England inFebruary 1969, but in August, faced with theprospect of entering the draft, the governor toldhis draft board that he would enter the ArmyReserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program atthe University of Arkansas in the fall of 1970instead...
...Clinton, who had returned to Oxford, sayshe changed his mind and had his late stepfathernotify the ROTC program in October that he wantedto be let out of the agreement. After ROTCinformed the draft board, the governor wasreclassified 1-A on October...
...important that you understand the contextof the time. By 1969, the Vietnam War was totallydiscredited," said Reich. "Most young men whocould avoid the draft...