Yes on both counts. But the point is that I don’t think Clinton would have been exempt from a tour in VN simply because he was “too smart.”
Clinton is not half as smart as he is clever. He would have figure out a way to get a non-combat position, at best, i.e., Gore.
It was quite dumb of Clinton not to go, he had powerful friends in high places and it would have been all too easy to arrange a safe billet. After all, his biographer, R. Emmett Tyrell noted in “Boy Clinton” that he, Hillary, and the rest of the gang were careful never to make like Bill Ayres and do anything over the top that might damage their future “viability within the system.”
Vietnam was notable for having the smallest proportion of soldiers actually seeing combat (”ass in the grass”) of any war up to that time.
Then again, maybe it’s just as well. Seeing Clinton make speeches to the American Legion as an actual member, wearing that silly hat, probably would have done me in.
I remember that photo of Al Gore doing so during Campaign 00’ and I like to have died of hyperventilation from laughing my ass off.