‘Hell no, we won’t go?’: We admire the military but elect draft evaders president
Reading a book about the Vietnam War recently, it occurred to me that we’ve never had a Vietnam vet as president, even though two (John McCain and John Kerry) have been nominees.
Reading a book about the Vietnam War recently, it occurred to me that we’ve never had a Vietnam vet as president, even though two (John McCain and John Kerry) have been nominees. Instead, we have had two presidents, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, who managed not to get drafted, and a third, George W. Bush, who got into the National Guard.
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Reading a book about the Vietnam War recently, it occurred to me that we’ve never had a Vietnam vet as president, even though two (John McCain and John Kerry) have been nominees. Instead, we have had two presidents, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, who managed not to get drafted, and a third, George W. Bush, who got into the National Guard.
Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Tom Pennington/Getty Images, Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
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