Word: conscription
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mention a fiefdom of almost 10,000 deskmen-the job sounds like a bureaucrat's dream. Recently, though, it seemed as if no one in the country was willing to take the burdensome post mired in controversy. It was fitting that the Nixon Administration finally had to conscript a man to head the Selective Service System...