According to Eric Alterman, Dick Cheney received 4 student draft deferments from 1963-1965 while a student at the University of Minnesota. He married Lynne Cheney in 1964, and became exempt from the draft because he was a married man. But in October 1965, the secret service announced that married men without children could be drafted.
Exactly 9 months and two days later, Dick Cheney's first child was born. Cheney applied for another deferment on that basis when she was only ten weeks pregnant.
"Kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
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