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Neither House of Congress chose to write any immediate deferments into law. Their rules on deferments refer to UMST, which goes into operation as soon as the President can set up the system. But this may take a couple of years at best. Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) thinks, in fact, that it will not start working for at least four years. Each House did leave in its bill, however, a statement (included in the present law) that the President may defer any and all groups of students as he sees fit. So the President will have...
Price echoed the views of Representatives Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the committee, and Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex), another key member. He explained that the major opposition to the draft came from Congressmen who were afraid of a peacetime...