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Robert Dornan: Right. ``Draft dodger'' is certainly a pejorative label. If I moved it around and used gerunds and verbs and said…

On the recordSeptember 12, 1996
Right. ``Draft dodger'' is certainly a pejorative label. If I moved it around and used gerunds and verbs and said ``dodging the draft,'' that is what he did. I went to the Cambridge cemetery at Cambridge, England, and looked up the grave just a few days ago, to be exact, September 1, to look at the grave of Bob Holmes, the younger brother of Col. EugeneHolmes, the man who was used so shamefully to enlist Clinton in the ROTC as a student about to enter law school, 1 year of graduate school, ditching class at Oxford, 1 year out of Arkansas with a degree from Georgetown, he was put back into an ROTC class with undergraduate college students, a brand new program which he used to have the draft induction date of July 29, 1969, and this is history, Mr. Speaker, crushed, suppressed, reversed; the only time I have ever heard of that in the history of my life, unless it was a hard football injury, like a broken leg or neck injury, or a car crash that was traumatic, and even then if you can recover from your injuries and pass a minimal buck private physical to enter the army, your induction date is merely postponed for a while. Never have I heard one politically suppressed by a Senator, Senator Fulbright, by a Governor, Winthrop Rockefeller, by the head of the draft board, being leaned on by Buick dealers related to Mr. Clinton. It is a scandal. And that, plus England, would have prevented him from ever getting a top secret clearance.…
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Addressing the draft history of Bill Clinton and related political influences.

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