It was pretty common Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft Biden not only received deferments for his undergraduate days at the University of Delaware, but for three years of law school at Syracuse University. When his education deferments expired in 1968, Biden requested a deferment based on the fact he had asthma as a teenager. He did this in spite of the fact that, according to his own book, he was a star athlete in high school and in college played intramural sports and was a lifeguard in the summer. https://www.militarytimes.com/opini...rump-wasnt-the-only-potus-to-avoid-the-draft/