Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...draft of the report released today, the eight-member committee outlines formal and informal complaint procedures, and offers a definition of sexual harassment tailored to the Law School community...
Bush sounds at least as unbelievable on this as Clinton has on his draft status...
...point here isn't that Clinton's character shines with moral polish. It doesn't. The Arkansas governor has withheld at least some information about his draft status (although not all the charges against him appear to be true). He has all but admitted marital infidelity. He has waffled on free trade and federal abortion funding...
Second, when the alleged violations of the two are compared, Bush's seem more serious. Lying about Iran-contra versus lying about a 20-year-old's draft status. Waffling on abortion versus waffling on federal abortion funding. Fudging free trade versus fudging a treaty with China...
...served his country "in uniform" in contrast to the Democratic standard bearer. The fact is that of all the three baby- boomer candidates running this year, only Gore saw duty in Vietnam -- albeit as a noncombatant Army reporter with the 20th Engineering Battalion outside Saigon. Quayle avoided the draft and Vietnam by using his family connections to help him gain admittance to the Indiana National Guard -- a solution that Bill Clinton was considering at about the same time in Arkansas before he found other ways to stay out of the army...