European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Sunday november 13,1994 Clinton ignoring vets for jobs activist says Washington a veterans Are seriously underrepresented in senior administration positions and those who fought in Vietnam have been ignored in the appointment of White House staff says a study by vet Erans interest groups. Veterans activist John Wheeler using office of personnel management figures said Friday that Only 21 percent of the nearly 600 men appointed As of last june to offices needing Senate confirmation were veterans. Among White House staff the figure was far smaller he said. ,. /./. By comparison 30 percent of a similar number of Bush administration appointees in december 1992 were vets. Nearly half the american male population Over age 35,64 percent of male senators and 45 percent of male House members Are veterans. Wheeler said his own research found that As of Jun Only 4 percent five of 126 of male White House staff members were veterans with the exception office president Al Gore Wheeler was unable to find any official in the president s executive office who served in Vietnam. ,. There was no immediate comment from the Whitehouse. Last april however Steven Hilton of the White House Public Liaison office wrote to Wheeler that president Clinton has directed his staff to con duct an aggressive outreach Effort both to individual veterans and to the chartered veterans  Clinton s White House differs from that of George Bush and previous presidents in that Many of its younger staffers grew up at a time when the United states had a Volunteer Force and was engaged in no major wars. As a College student during the Vietnam War Clinton joined anti War protests and avoided the draft. Wheeler who has been pressing the White House for More than a year on the veterans employment Issue said the generational change was no excuse for the dearth of top slots going to people with National service experience. ,.,  Charles Moskos a military sociologist at Northwestern University in Evanston 111., asserted that while the Low number of veterans in White House jobs probably was inadvertent it reflects the administration s tone deafness in terms of military related  Clinton always has had to Roubet gaining the Trust of the military Community because of his activities against the Vietnam War his efforts to change the Pentagon s policy toward Gays and his moves to reduce defense spending. His failure to appoint veterans could further alienate those who served in uniform Wheeler said. De Timperlake a senior veterans affairs official in the Bush administration said that while Many qualified veterans got jobs under Clinton with the a and in the Pentagon the Lack of veterans in other departments has been a pretty big Blind  space Center Houston