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October 17 2002
Of deregulation, Enron and chickenhawks
PAT DAWSON, Montana Unplugged
Excerpt: Four years ago, I wondered how somebody with a draft lottery
number of 23 could escape the 1970 call-up and go on to law school for three
years. So I contacted the U.S. Selective Service national headquarters in
Arlington, Va., and asked for Marc Racicot’s draft board proceedings, which are
a matter of public record.
Fine, they answered, but where was he registered? I assumed it had to be
either in Lincoln County (Libby), where he grew up and went to high school, or
else Lewis and Clark County (Helena), where he attended Carroll College and his
father coached basketball.
Weeks later, on Nov. 24, 1998, they called back: a search turned up no record
of Racicot registered for the draft in those counties, according to the
Selective Service.
I found my own records from Lewis and Clark County, and those entries end
when I was conscripted into the U.S. Army in May 1968. The records show others
of my age group who were also drafted, deferred for medical reasons, or had
enlisted. But no Marc Racicot.
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