Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these thoughts the Communists will step up their offensive. Americans, in turn, will be outraged at the enemy's acts of war and lack of humility. The criers will come to stand behind the President and go for a military victory. What politician would refuse an all-out draft campaign? Yes, I think that Lyndon Johnson continues to be the very shrewd politician that he has been for 30 years...
...President mentioned to his friend of 30 years, Texas Governor John Connally, that he might not run again. He voiced a similar opinion to Robert McNamara in August. In October, Johnson dictated the bare outline of a withdrawal statement to Christian at the L.B.J. ranch. Christian took the draft to Austin to show it to Connally, who was himself considering retirement after three terms...
...White House Aide Horace Busby, now managing a Washington consulting firm, to his compartment aboard Air Force One. "What do you think I ought to do next year?" he asked, referring to the presidential race. Busby suggested that he withdraw. In mid-January he asked Busby and Christian to draft a withdrawal statement for use in his 1968 State of the Union speech...
...precedents for the President's action?and yet there had never been anything quite like it. Every Vice President who succeeded o the presidency in this century has renounced a second full term. But Theodore Roosevelt eventually sought another term on a third-party ticket, Calvin Coolidge courted a draft, and Harry Truman (see box preceding page), had served for 7 years before bowing...
...believe that the First Amendment grants a constitutional right" in this area. "Marching back and forth, though utilized to communicate ideas, is not speech and therefore is not protected by the First Amendment." Nor, by that reasoning, is there any free speech protection for those who burn draft cards or desecrate the flag...