tinydancer
Diamond Member
Until you get the real reason, why not give him the benefit of doubt like you did with Clinton and his draft status?
Meister just so you know the real reason was Newt truly was exempt. By an executive order that Kennedy signed.
Check it out.
President Kennedy set up Executive Order 11119 (signed on September 10, 1963), granting an exemption from conscription for married men between the ages of 19 and 26. President Johnson later rescinded the exemption for married men without children by Executive Order 11241 (signed on August 26, 1965 and going into effect on midnight of that date).
However, married men with children or other dependents and men married before the Executive Order went into effect were still exempt. President Reagan revoked both of them with Executive Order 12553 (signed on February 25, 1986).
How fortunate.
It wasn't a volunteer army. We're talking conscription with parameters.
Hey you wanna take a shit on Kennedy's executive order by all means go right ahead.
President Kennedy thought he was doing the right thing at the time.