After college, he received a draft deferment to go to law school.
While in law school, Burke received a draft deferment as a full-time student.
He attended the University of Missouri but dropped out after one semester, which ended his draft deferment.
After a year, still under a draft deferment, he left the city and drove west with a family fortune of $1,200.
When he left Yale in 1958, he said, he expected to go into the military, but at the last moment received a draft deferment.
He got a teaching job at a vocational school outside Taos, resulting in a draft deferment.
And to help our sons get draft deferments, too, so they wouldn't have to go to Vietnam.
Irreplaceable film workers received draft deferments to allow them to continue producing pro-Allied films.
With the war in Vietnam, teaching promised a draft deferment, he said.
This left out Jesse Jackson, who, being a seminary student, had a draft deferment.