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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.
[34] [35] Harris was an anti-draft organizer who went to jail for his beliefs (and was briefly married to folk singer Joan Baez), [31] Miller was the first Vietnam War refuser to publicly burn his draft card (and later became partner to spiritual teacher Starhawk), [32] Elmer refused to register for the draft and destroyed draft board files in ...
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.
A G.I. Joe comic showing a classic example of an antiwar hippie spitting on a returning Vietnam vet. There is a persistent myth or misconception that many Vietnam War veterans were spat on and vilified by antiwar protesters during the late 1960s and early 1970s. These stories, which overwhelmingly surfaced many years after the war, usually ...
Neither Trump nor Harris served in the military, with Trump obtaining a series of deferments during the Vietnam War, including one obtained with a physician's letter saying he had bone spurs in ...
(Trump’s campaign didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.) For even the savviest of presidents, the relationship between a commander in chief and his military is famously fraught, an intricate dance of egos and agendas, worldviews and bureaucracies. A President Trump, however, could usher in a clash of historic proportions.
[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 ...
On December 26, 2016, the Vietnam Veterans Day Coalition of States Council presented a letter to President Elect Donald Trump and Congressional leadership outlining the history and timeline of cause to establish March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day and requesting that it be one of the first legislations passed and signed into law during the 115 ...