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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:48:06 -0000 (UTC),  some nym-forging faggot says...   
      
   > Leftists were led by the shit eating coward draft dodger Clinton   
      
   Clinton's Draft Dodging   
      
   February 16,1968 - "The Johnson administration unexpectedly   
   abolished... . graduate deferments." -   
      
   March 20,1968 - Clinton, age 21, is classified 1-A, eligible for   
   induction, as he nears graduation from Georgetown. - Comment: Bill Clinton was   
   the only man of his prime draft age   
      
   classified-"1-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. -   
      
   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.' "   
      
   Fall 1968 - Because of the local draft board's continuing postponement   
   of his pre-induction physical, Clinton is able to enroll at Oxford Univ.   
      
   February 2,1969 - While at Oxford, Clinton finally takes and passes a   
   military physical examination. -   
      
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