"In the fall of 1961 it didn't take very long to discover in Vietnam that we weren't likely to be successful there. It took me less than a week, on my first visit." - Daniel Ellsberg "The three most famous cases of deferment during the Vietnam War years were those of two future presidents and a vice-president. George W. Bush spent his time during the war within the continental United States as a member of the Texas Air National Guard and Bill Clinton spent the war years with his own educational deferments at Georgetown and then at Oxford under the auspices of a Rhodes scholarship. Vice President Dick Cheney received five deferments during the Vietnam years, famously remarking that he had “other, more important things to do” at the time." - _Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds_