"I think from the time Bill Clinton was 23-years-old, he chose as his abiding lodestar the need to preserve his political viability within the system. That's not my phrase. That's a phrase from probably the most revealing document Bill Clinton ever wrote which was the terribly confiding letter he sent the ROTC Colonel who had helped get him into the ROTC program and therefore sheltered him from the draft during a period when so many others were being called to service. Having done so this 23-year-old Rhodes scholar sat down and impulsive as always, Bill Clinton wrote probably the most candid document he ever authored. Trying to explain why, although he was opposed to the war, he would not take too active a role in opposing it, and why he needed to wrestle with all the alternatives of going into the service. And he concluded by justifying this convenient and really expedient course, by telling the old colonel that his aim had been to preserve his political viability within the system. He always had a great faith that he would hold high office and have a great political career. And indeed it was faith that was justified. The man is now President of the United States. And even now his guiding principal would seem to be preserving his political viability within the system. Winning the next election in other words."
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