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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]
He did not serve himself, avoiding the Vietnam War via four education deferments, followed by a medical deferment for bone spurs in his feet. (His campaign notes that Trump received a high number in the draft lottery and was unlikely to ever be called up.) But on numerous occasions, he has dismissed the experiences of those who did.
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.
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.
The daughters of a New York podiatrist who diagnosed now-President Trump with the bone spurs that exempted him from serving in the Vietnam War say their father may have done so as a favor to Fred ...
[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 ...
[6] [7] By the end of the decade, the anti-war movement included many veterans who had served in Vietnam as well as middle-class parents with draft-age sons. College students were entitled to a deferment (2-S status) but were subject to the draft if they dropped out, stopped making "normal progress" in community college (i.e., started a fifth ...
The daughters of Dr. Larry Braunstein, who died in 2007, allege that Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was the podiatrist’s landlord and that Braunstein made the diagnosis in return for easier ...