Political and family influence kept Clinton out of the draft. - Look up Robert Corrado, the Posted: May 17th, 2018 - 1:10 pm In Reply to: Many of today's leftists got out of going to Vietnam by - going into teaching. That's why
only surviving Hot Springs draft board member from that period. He said Clinton's draft statement (the long delays) was the result of "some form of preferential treatment." He recalled in an article in the LA times that the chairman of the three-man draft panel once held back Clinton's file with the explanation that 'we've got to give him time to go to Oxford,' where the semester began in the fall of 1968.
Corrado also complained that he was called by an aide to then Senator J. William Fulbright urging him and his fellow board members to 'give every consideration' to keep Clinton out of the draft so he could attend Oxford.
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