"Bob Schmall" wrote in message ...

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What does military service have to do with being a good president? Mr. Bush
is president yet spent his time serving (?) in the Guards, and IIRC since
1960 only Presidents Kennedy, Carter, and Bush 1 served in the regular
military. Several presidents served in the Civil War, but that was no
indicator of their abilities--in fact Grant, the most famous of them, was a
notoriously poor president.

Grover Cleveland hired a man to take his place in the Army during
the Civil War, a practice that was legal at the time.

Ford served in the Navy, and Reagan in the Army Air Force (motion
picture unit, he made movies for the Army). Johnson was
also a Lt commander in the Navy in WWII, and was assigned in some
capacity to FDR's staff. He received a Silver Star for riding as
an observer in an aircraft that returned to base due to engine
trouble without seing combat.

Clinton was the first non-veteran president since FDR.

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