Your fact-checks will appear here
The Vietnam-era draft status of George W. Bush, including the legal pathways that allowed well-connected or eligible men to postpone or avoid induction.
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...
Bone-spur deferments were a recognizable and repeatedly cited medical route for avoiding Vietnam-era service, often invoked in political rhetoric and reporting about high-profile figures . Contemporar...
Multiple legal pathways existed during the Vietnam-era Selective Service that allowed well-connected or otherwise eligible men to postpone or avoid induction—most commonly student deferments, medical ...