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...message had been gestating since last summer, when White House Aides Joseph Califano and Harry McPherson began tapping experts at more than 100 colleges and culling reports from at least ten task forces. Their research was assembled in a black loose-leaf notebook that grew to 400 pages, divided into 20 categories, by the time Johnson was ready to put on the final touches. Enjoining his writers to keep it concise, Johnson ordered a dozen drafts, rewriting much of the speech in pencil on a yellow legal...
...reply, Califano said the Selective Service System "is not an instrument to repress and punish unpopular views." He said the system does not "vest in draft boards the judicial role in determining the legality of individual conduct...
...White House response--written by Joseph A. Califano Jr., special assistant to President Johnson--and the presidents's letter were released to the public last Saturday...
...reply to the Ivy presidents, Califano wrote that a statement issued Dec. 9 by Attorney General Ramsey Clark and Hershey had already tried to establish "that lawful protest activities, whether directed to the draft or other national issues, do not subject registrants to the acceleration or other special administrative action by the Selective Service System...
...separate interview last Saturday, Hershey was reported to decline comment on whether he supported the position set forth in Califano's reply to the Ivy League presidents...