Word: 4f
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of Rafferty's ringing condemnation of draft-card burners as "creeps, cowards, unwashed, long-haired Communists," the Democratic-leaning Long Beach Independent has accused the G.O.P candidate of being something less than avid to serve in the Armed Forces during World War II. Citing Rafferty's 4F status (for flat feet), the newspaper quoted his exwife: "He said if that didn't work, it would be easy to have an accident and shoot...
...that the New York Governor's only problem. Having himself changed his political classification from 4F to 1A, Rockefeller felt no sudden, irresistible new pull toward the Republican nomination. Not yet, at least. Perhaps for this reason, he paraded his availability a bit more invitingly than before by acknowledging that he just might run against Richard Nixon in the Oregon primary. And the Governor summoned some two dozen Republican leaders from all over the country for a weekend meeting at his New York City apartment...
...morality of the U.S. selective-service system has reached a decibel count unmatched since the program first began-25 years, 81,000,000 registrants and 13,500,000 inductees ago. There are the predictable complaints about deferment of such people as New York Jets Quarterback Joe Namath (4F with a legitimately bum knee) and Lynda Bird Johnson's boy friend, $200,000-a-year Actor George Hamilton (3A because he is his mother's sole support...
...inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead forgo big, postponable purchases-such as cars-to save their declining dollars for necessities. On top of that, 250,000 potential buyers have been shipped to Viet Nam, and Stateside draftees and 1A civilians get 4F ratings from finance companies...