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...also kept his distance from military service. Though there is no evidence that he intervened with his draft board to stay out of uniform, Cheney made full use of legal means to avoid being called up. From 1963 to 1965, he got four student deferments. By the following year, he was married and got a different deferment, as an expectant father. (Yet as Secretary of Defense during the Gulf War, he opposed a bill, the Military Orphans Prevention Act, that would have allowed one member of a two-military-career family to stay back from the front lines...
...always had to calibrate everything," observes a peer, "find the middle ground between the family code and the times he grew up in." He didn't enlist and head for Vietnam. But "leaving the country to avoid the draft was not an option for me," he explains in his book. "I was too conservative and too traditional." Like many sons of prominent pols, W. found a place in the National Guard, spending nearly two years learning to fly fighter jets. By that time the F-102 was increasingly obsolete, so there was not much chance he would ever be called...
...Yale class of '68 offered George W. Bush a perfect chance to become his own man, as many sons of privilege did. Many of them forswore their trust funds, dodged the draft, grew their hair, switched from beer to pot. But in a way, the opposite happened with W. He may have been the family rebel, by their standards, but even from the earliest days, he was also the protector, fiercely defending his dad. His father ran for the Senate in Texas in 1964, opposing the civil rights bill and supporting Barry Goldwater all the way. His opponent, Senator Ralph...
...Every President and Secretary of State and foreign leader involved in the negotiations for more than a decade has had reason to turn to Ross and ask him for his thoughts. This week was no exception. Turning to him in a late-afternoon meeting, Clinton said, "Dennis, can you draft us something on this over dinner?" Ross, used to the routine, leaned toward an aide and said, smiling, "That's O.K., we missed lunch...
Ross earns that trust in different ways. In 1993, when the Palestinians and Israelis on their own had negotiated a draft treaty of mutual recognition as part of the Oslo accords, Secretary of State Christopher sat with Ross, both reading copies of the draft. "There was a lot of tension over what the American reaction would be," says Uri Savir, one of the architects of the accords. "The reaction of Christopher would have an enormous impact on our region...Christopher turned to Ross and asked what he thought. Ross said it was a tremendous historical achievement. That...