XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.trump   
   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:20:18 +0000,  Mitchell Holman says...   
      
   > >> So you accept that Trump had bone spurs...   
   > >   
   > > Yes.   
   >   
   >   
   >     Where is this "bone spurs" diagnosis?   
      
   Pure TDS.   
      
   >     Show us a record of it.   
      
   Pure TDS.   
      
   Show us the proof of Biden's and/or Clinton's reasons for avoiding the draft.   
      
   Open a FOIA claim.   
      
   Same with Trump.   
      
   =====   
      
   Come up with proof Trump lied, or shut the fuck up. Until then...   
      
   ROTC Officer Unaware of Draft Notice   
      
   Clinton: The Man Whose Action Kept The Future Governor In School Says He Was   
   Not Told of 1969 Induction Letter. Draft Board Insists None Was Sent   
      
   LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The colonel who administered the college ROTC program that   
   helped save Bill Clinton from the draft said Sunday that the future Democratic   
   presidential front-runner never mentioned that he had received an induction   
   notice months before he applied for admission.   
      
   Retired Lt. Col. Clinton D. Jones, who was responsible for recruiting   
   candidates into the program, said he "relied heavily" on Clinton's   
   representation of his draft status - that he was classified 1-A and needed a   
   deferment in 1969 because the local draft board intended to call him for   
   military service.   
      
   Had Clinton disclosed the fact that he had already received a draft notice,   
   Jones said, he would have urged rejection of his application for ROTC at the   
   University of Arkansas law school. Jones said he first learned about Clinton's   
   induction letter while watching television Sunday morning.   
      
   "I think Bill Clinton should be more forthright with a lot of people," Jones   
   said Sunday in a telephone interview from his home in South Carolina. "I think   
   that's his problem."   
      
   Late Saturday night, Clinton's campaign said the candidate received a letter   
   of induction from the Hot Springs, Ark., draft bord while he was studying at   
   Oxford in England in April,1969. The campaign issued the statement after   
   Little Rock attorney Cliff Jackson showed The Times old letters Jackson had   
   written to friends describing Clinton's draft notice and Clinton's attempts to   
   avoid the draft. Jackson, who was a friend of Clinton when both were at   
   Oxford, now opposes Clinton's bid for the White House.   
      
   By Sunday afternoon, however, Clinton's deputy campaign manager, George   
   Stephanopoulos, had backtracked, saying Clinton was not sure the letter he   
   received in England was an official induction notice. Stephanopoulos said the   
   letter could have been his notice to take a pre-draft physical exam.   
      
   Clinton himself referred to the letter as an "induction notice" and a 'draft   
   notice" as he campaigned on Sunday in New York.   
      
   He said he had not intended to deceive anyone by failing to disclose that he   
   had received it. "I would gladly have told you this," he said, "if it had even   
   occurred to me that this was relevant."   
      
   Jones said the existence of Clinton's induction notice would have been   
   extremely relevant nearly 23 years ago, when the then-Rhodes scholar   
   interviewed with him for a spot in the ROTC program.   
      
   "If he had a valid letter of induction, no, we wouldn't have taken him," said   
   Jones, who served as director of procurement for the law school's ROTC program   
   from 1967 until 1970.   
      
   "The draft board was doing its job. They had the same job I did: They had the   
   job of procuring bodies," he said. "They got quotas, and if this was a man   
   they felt should go, I don't think we would have touched somebody like that."   
      
   Jones said he took Clinton's representation of his draft status at face value   
   because the future Arkansas governor was highly regarded, even as a student.   
   It was based on that representation that Jones told The Times last week that   
   Clinton never received an induction letter.   
      
   "Arkansas was very proud of Bill Clinton," Jones said. "(He was) a graduate of   
   Georgetown and a Rhodes Scholar... . This was a man who was well known and   
   well thought of and the state of Arkansas was very proud.   
      
   "This is a man who didn't walk in and say, "Hey, I want to get out of the   
   draft," " Jones added. "This was a man of high character and high   
   qualifications, the type you want in your program. I accepted his word, and   
   the word of the man in the (state) draft headquarters in Little Rock, that   
   (Clinton) was classified 1-A and was going to be drafted and couldn't go back   
   to England."   
      
   Asked if he had any response, Stephanopoulos, Clinton's deputy campaign   
   manager, said the governor 'did not conceal anything" from ROTC officials, who   
   were in constant contact with the draft board and should have known about all   
   matters pertaining to Clinton's draft status. Stephanopoulos said Clinton told   
   him he had never interviewed with Jones.   
      
   Told about this, Jones declared: "If Bill Clinton said he did not talk to me,   
   that's a flat lie... ."   
      
   Jones said he interviewed Clinton for 30 minutes. "Now he's calling me a   
   liar," Jones said, "and I won't stand for that."   
      
   The retired colonel said he believed at the time that Clinton 'deserved" a   
   second year at Oxford and agreed to admit him to the ROTC program in exchange   
   for the student's promise that he would come back and attend the University of   
   Arkansas law school the following year,1970.   
      
   By enrolling in the ROTC program, records show, Clinton obtained a deferment   
   on Aug. 7,1969. The new status protected him during the next two months, when   
   officials said his age would have virtually guaranteed his induction into the   
   Army. Clinton has said he had a change of heart and asked that his deferment   
   be canceled so he could take his chances on the draft, just as did other young   
   men from his hometown.   
      
   Records show he was restored to 1-A status on Oct. 30, but Jones said the   
   reclassification meant little, since Clinton continued to be shielded from the   
   draft by his contract with ROTC.   
      
   By that time, Clinton's chances of being drafted were further diminished,   
   because President Richard M. Nixon had announced that graduate students would   
   be exempt from the draft that year. On Dec. 1, Clinton received a high number   
   in the first draft lottery.   
      
   The ROTC program subsequently released Clinton after he wrote a letter Dec. 3   
   to Jones" boss, Col. Eugene Holmes, thanking him for "saving me from the   
   draft" and admitting he may have been deceptive about the depth of his anti-   
   war feeling when he enrolled in the program.   
      
   Holmes could not be reached for comment Sunday.   
      
   Although Clinton's ROTC file has been destroyed, Jones said he was so angered   
   by the letter that he kept a copy. He released it to ABC News in February,   
   forcing the candidate to confront the politically damaging issue on the eve of   
   the New Hampshire primary.   
      
      
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