I DO think he wanted to dodge the draft, but that’s a separate issue for me on why Washington would have considered Ted ineligible for the presidency and not an NBC.
My point (at this point) is that the timeline is incomplete.
NO ONE has found a marriage certificate or announcement anywhere. Cruz’s birth certificate doesn’t list Eleanor Cruz and Rafael Cruz as the parents. It lists Eleanor WILSON and Rafael Cruz as the parents.
Wilson is not Eleanor’s maiden name. It is her married name under her first husband from whom she divorced (about ‘63, I think).
So, in my opinion, Cruz was very possibly an illegitimate child born in a foreign country to a most likely US mother.
That explains the lack of CRBA, because of ‘embarrassment’??? There is some question whether in 1970 an unwed mother could pass birth citizenship to a child.
But, without a marriage certificate, newspaper announcement of marriage, etc., and NOTHING clear in any of these newspaper articles or Wiki articles, it is impossible to do much more than point out the incongruities.
Do you advocate that Cruz just keeps his records sealed and we just take his word for it? No questions need to be asked. Is that your position? I would think he would gladly open up his records just to clear the air on the issue if it would benefit him.