XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, can.politics   
   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.   
      
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   Come up with proof Trump lied, or shut the fuck up. Until then...   
      
   Dear Col. Holmes,   
      
   "I am sorry to be so long in writing. Almost daily since my return to England   
   I have thought about writing, about what I want to and ought to say.   
      
   First, I want to thank you, not only for SAVING ME FROM THE DRAFT, but for   
   being so kind to me last summer, when I was as low as I have ever been."   
      
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   To avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War during his college years, Bill   
   Clinton used the political influence of a U.S. Senator, who employed him as an   
   aide. Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case,   
   issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign:   
      
   "I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator   
   Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to   
   the ROTC program.   
      
   I believe that he purposely deceived me, using the possibility of joining the   
   ROTC as a ploy to work with the draft board to delay his induction and get a   
   new draft classification."   
      
   =====   
      
   Clinton's Draft Avoidance   
      
   To give an illustration of how a prominent leader avoided the draft in favor   
   of college, I searched the Internet for Bill Clinton's ROTC letter and his   
   involvement in the Vietnam War demonstrations in England. The following is   
   what I found.   
      
   Bill Clinton's actions toward the draft was not a separate case, but his   
   actions, and those of his family and friends using influence were reflected   
   throughout the United States by thousands of other American families. The vast   
   majority of male students attending colleges and universities were very   
   concerned by and fearful of the draft. Most did not go to Bill Clinton's   
   extremes.   
      
      
   August 19, 1964 - Clinton registers for the draft - [Washington Post Sep 13   
   92]   
      
   September 1964 - Clinton, age 18, enters Georgetown University - [The Comeback   
   Kid, CF Allen and J Portis, p. 20]   
      
   November 17, 1964- Clinton is classified 2-S (student deferment). This will   
   shield him from the draft throughout his undergraduate years. - [Wash Post Sep   
   13 92]   
      
   February 16, 1968 - "The Johnson administration unexpectedly abolished   
   graduate deferments." - [Wash Post Sep 13 92]   
      
   March 20, 1968 - Clinton, age 21, is classified 1-A, eligible for induction,   
   as he nears graduation from Georgetown.   
   - [Wash Post Sep 13 92]   
      
   Comment: Bill Clinton was the only man of his prime draft age classified1- A   
   by that draft board in 1968 whose pre-induction physical examination was put   
   off for 10.5 months. This delay was more than twice as long as anyone else and   
   more than five times longer than most area men of comparable eligibility. -   
   [Los Angeles Times Sep 02 92]   
      
   Summer 1968 - Political and family influence keeps Clinton out of the draft.   
   Robert Corrado - the only surviving Hot Springs draft board member from that   
   period - concluded that Clinton's draft statement (the long delays) was the   
   result of "some form of preferential treatment." According to the Times,   
   "Corrado recalled that the chairman of the three-man draft panel ... once held   
   back Clinton's file with the explanation that "we've got to give him time to   
   go to Oxford," where the semester began in the fall of 1968.   
      
   Corrado also complained that he was called by an aide to then Senator J.   
   William Fulbright urging him and his fellow board members to 'give every   
   consideration' to keep Clinton out of the draft so he could attend Oxford.   
      
   Throughout the remainder of 1968, Corrado said, Clinton's draft file was   
   routinely held back from consideration by the full board. Consequently,   
   although he was classified 1-A on March 20,1968, he was not called for his   
   physical exam until Feb 3,1969, while he was at Oxford. Clinton's Uncle   
   Raymond Clinton personally lobbied Senator Fulbright, William S. Armstrong,   
   the chairman of the three-man Hot Springs draft board, and Lt. Comdr. Trice   
   Ellis, Jr., commanding officer of the local Navy reserve unit, to obtain a   
   slot for Clinton in the Naval Reserve.   
      
   Clinton secured a "standard enlisted man's billet, not an officer's slot which   
   would have required Clinton to serve two years on active duty beginning within   
   12 months of his acceptance." This Navy Reserve assignment was "created   
   especially for the Bill Clinton at a time in 1968 when no existing reserve   
   slots were open in his hometown unit."   
      
   According to the LA Times, "after about two weeks waiting for Bill Clinton to   
   arrive for his preliminary interview and physical exam, Ellis said he called   
   (Clinton's uncle) Raymond to inquire - "What happened to that boy?" According   
   to Ellis, Clinton's uncle replied - "Don't worry about it.   
      
   He won't be coming down. "It's all been taken care of.' " - [LA Times Sep 02   
   92]   
      
   Fall 1968 - Because of the local draft board's continuing postponement of his   
   pre-induction physical, Clinton is able to enroll at Oxford Univ. - [Wash Post   
   Sep 13 92]   
      
   February 2, 1969 - While at Oxford, Clinton finally takes and passes a   
   military physical examination.   
   - [Washington Times Sep 18 92]   
      
   April 1969 - Clinton receives induction notice from the Hot Springs AR draft   
   board. Clinton however claims that the draft board told him to ignore the   
   notice because it arrived after the deadline for induction. - [Wash Post Sep   
   13 92]   
      
   June-July 1969 - Clinton receives a second induction notice with a July 28   
   induction date and returns home.   
   - [Wash Times Sep 18 92]   
      
   July 11,1969 - Clinton's friend at Oxford, Cliff Jackson, writes, "Clinton is   
   feverishly trying to find a way to avoid entering the Army as a drafted   
   private. I have had several of my friends in influential positions trying to   
   pull strings on Bill's behalf." - [LA Times Sep 26 92]   
      
   Clinton benefited from yet another lobbying campaign in order to evade this   
   induction notice. "Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton, who has   
   said he did not pull strings to avoid the Vietnam-era draft, was able to get   
   his Army induction notice canceled in the summer of 1969 after a lobbying   
   effort directed at the Republican head of the state draft agency."   
   Arrangements were made for Clinton to meet with Col. Williard A. Hawkins who   
   "was the only person in Arkansas with authority to rescind a draft notice. ...   
   The apparently successful appeal to Hawkins was planned while Clinton was   
      
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