Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon as the Globe story was out, Kennedy met Capitol reporters and declared emphatically: "I am not a candidate for President nor would 1 accept a draft, nor am I a candidate for Vice President nor would I accept a draft." Then, in immediate contradiction, he remarked that if his presence on the ticket were critical to victory in November, he "of course" would consider running for Vice President...
...neighborhood draft dodger triumphantly has returned home from Sweden to take one of the newly created jobs at Freedom Fleet, Unltd., a bus company shuttling ghetto children to racially balanced schools in the suburbs. After work, the ex-expatriate picks up his date at the friendly corner abortion parlor, stops next door at Pot City for some A capulco gold, and then trips off to Timothy Leary's Dizzy-land, a new chain of rock-'n'-roll-your-own nightclubs springing up in abandoned American Legion halls...
...that, save for deserters, he favored unqualified amnesty for "those who, on the grounds of conscience, have refused to participate in the Viet Nam tragedy." In the Nebraska primary, where the amnesty issue was used against him, he hinted that he might recommend some form of volunteer service for draft evaders: "If I had left the country rather than participate in war, I would want to do that...
Since then he has not mentioned that possible proviso, preferring to point out that his attitude on draft evasion was shared by Presidents Lincoln, Coolidge and Truman, all of whom granted amnesty following previous wars...
...telltale provincial accent. The course led to a role as Brigitte Bardot's unhappy husband in her first major movie, And God Created Woman. BB walked away with the picture, but Trintignant walked away with BB. Their widely publicized affair simmered for three years, until Trintignant got a draft notice. He swallowed large quantities of egg white in a desperate attempt to induce an albuminous condition and get a medical deferment, but the army inducted him anyway...