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The institution of lotteries to reduce subjective local-board advantages in the draft.
’s public explanation for avoiding military service in the era rested on a mix of moral opposition to the war and pragmatic use of legal deferments and timing: he said he was “morally opposed” to the ...
College and medical deferments during the created structural incentives that funneled educational and health‑profession opportunities toward men with socioeconomic advantages, and thereby redistribute...
Bill Clinton did not serve in Vietnam and avoided induction through a sequence of legal deferments, a contested brief ROTC pledge and ultimately a high draft-lottery number that kept him from being ca...
Bill Clinton received student deferments, studied at Oxford, entered the 1969 draft but drew a high lottery number and was never called — a sequence confirmed by contemporaneous reporting and later go...
Bill Clinton did not receive a medical exemption from the Vietnam War draft; his avoidance of combat service resulted from a sequence of student deferments, changing Selective Service classifications,...