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Date: April 2, 2007 4:15:02 PM PDT
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Subject: Draft-Dodging Rudy, Hero of the War on Terror
Giuliani says
he would have
gone to Vietnam ...
(AP)
Rudolph Giuliani in 1981, as an associate attorney general.
Bill Sammon, The Examiner
Feb 28, 2007 9:05 PM
http://www.examiner.com/
a-591690~Giuliani_says_he_would_have_gone_to_Vietnam.html
WASHINGTON - Although Rudy Giuliani opposed the Vietnam War and
took steps to avoid the draft in the late 1960s, he spent several
years in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps earlier that decade.
Giuliani joined the Air Force ROTC when he enrolled in Manhattan
College in the Bronx in 1961, the year President Kennedy sent 1,300
advisers to South Vietnam. Giuliani left the program in 1963, just
as American involvement in Vietnam was starting to escalate.
“I got washed out of flight training because when I was young, I
punctured two eardrums,” Giuliani told New York Magazine in 1987.
“It caused a minor hearing problem. I was very disappointed because
I wanted to fly.”
Giuliani graduated from Manhattan College in 1965 and spent the
next three years at New York University Law School. Upon graduation
in 1968, he became a law clerk for federal judge Lloyd MacMahon of
the Southern District of New York.
The 24-year-old clerk applied for an occupational deferment but was
turned down by the draft board. Giuliani appealed the decision,
which was overturned with the help of a letter of recommendation
from MacMahon.
"Giuliani was a law clerk for MacMahon, who at the time was hearing
selective service cases. MacMahon's letter to the draft board
stated that Giuliani was so necessary as a law clerk that he could
not be allowed to get shot at in Vietnam."
"Giuliani received what experts consider a rare occupaional
defermant."
--New York Post, June 11, 1989
But the deferment expired in 1970, and Giuliani found himself again
facing the prospect of being drafted. It is not clear whether his
hearing problem would have persisted from seven years earlier.
“I had student deferments during school, and then when I entered
the draft lottery, I pulled number 300, 306, something like that,”
he told New York.
The number was actually 308. Giuliani said he would have gone to
Vietnam if he had pulled a lower number.
“Oh sure, if I had to, even though I disagreed with it,” he told
the magazine. “I would have gone because it was my duty to go.”
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