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Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh reportedly avoided the Vietnam draft because of anal cysts. In a 2011 book critical of Limbaugh, journalist John K. Wlson wrote, "As a man who evaded the Vietnam War draft with the help of an anal cyst, Limbaugh is a chickenhawk fond of making hyperbolic attacks on [liberal] foreign policy". [90]
And while Barack Obama was just 12 years old when the Vietnam War draft ended, Donald Trump received four student deferments and a medical-leave deferment for bone spurs to avoid fighting in Vietnam.
The outcome of the draft process was the subject of controversy. As with any truly random process, the results of the draft were not evenly distributed and appeared to cluster together, and it happened that November and December births, or numbers 306 to 366, were assigned mainly to lower draft order numbers representing earlier calls to serve ...
A biographer of Trump said the president once showed him the bone spurs that got him out of the draft, but he "didn't see" any evidence of them.
Despite that fascination, Trump took multiple deferments to avoid service in the Vietnam War. When he became president, Trump staffed his cabinet with senior generals.
[133] [134] Harris was an anti-draft organizer who went to jail for his beliefs (and was briefly married to folk singer Joan Baez), [130] Miller was the first Vietnam War refuser to publicly burn his draft card (and later became partner to spiritual teacher Starhawk), [131] Elmer refused to register for the draft and destroyed draft board files ...
The Best and the Brightest (1972) is a book by journalist David Halberstam of the origins of the Vietnam War published by Random House.The focus of the book is on the foreign policy crafted by academics and intellectuals who were in President John F. Kennedy's administration, and the consequences of those policies in Vietnam.
A recent New York Times investigation has heightened suspicions surrounding the GOP nominee's draft deferment. Donald Trump deferred the US military draft 5 times, New York Times reports Skip to ...