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Education for Action - Board Member; Air Force ROTC - Head of the Community Service Society; FUP - Leader in Community Service Orientation Program; Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club; Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council...
REALITY CHECK Clinton receives an induction notice while at Oxford in 1969 and asks the draft board to postpone it until the end of the term, after which he enrolls in an ROTC program in Arkansas. A well-connected uncle also successfully lobbies the board on Clinton's behalf...
...small minority of pro-war students started Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). As anti-war demonstrators rallied to burn the ROTC building, formerly located on Francis Ave., YAF members stood on its roof...
...graded solely on the basis of coursework handed in to date, or on a pass-fail basis. On May 8, 35,000 demonstrators rally on Soldier's Field. The same day, police peacefully disperse 650 demonstrators who begin to damage Shannon Hall, the headquarters of Harvard's ROTC program on Francis...
Like any good baby boomer, Bill Clinton wanted to have it both ways. He tried to be hip and square at the same time, and in a way he succeeded. At Oxford he protested against the Vietnam War (cool) and wrote a letter thanking a ROTC commander for helping him to avoid the draft and "maintain my political viability" (square). He's a President who wears blue jeans and cowboy boots (and looks good in them), revels in intricate discussions of domestic policy and may have an extracurricular love life...