Word: draft
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...November in 1969. Clinton, a Rhodes scholar from Hot Springs, Ark., fed sixpence and shillings into the meter of the electric fire in order to warm himself. He sat at a rickety table lighted by a gooseneck lamp and worked on a letter about Vietnam, moral principles and the draft...
...housemate Frank Aller, another Rhodes scholar, from Spokane, Wash., had come to a decision. He would resist the draft. He would become a fugitive from his own country. Clinton and Aller talked endlessly about the choices that were closing in on them. The conversations were urgent and anguished -- and by no means theoretical. Toward the end of 1969, the number of Americans killed in Vietnam climbed past...
...ROTC program at the University of Arkansas. In three typewritten pages, Clinton explained why he did not enroll in the university's ROTC program as he had previously agreed to do. Getting into ROTC at the university's law school would have given Clinton a four-year draft deferment, but he told Colonel Holmes that he had decided to take his chances with the draft...
...letter was a search of conscience and also a surprising exercise of precocious political calculation. Clinton said that he opposed the draft and the war and that he was "in great sympathy with those who are not willing to fight, kill and maybe die for their country . . . right or wrong." But he would not resist the draft. He would "accept the draft in spite of my beliefs for one reason: to maintain my political viability within the system...
Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, in the tradition of former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, was the target this year, with allegations of marital infidelity and draft dodging surfacing in the press...