Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hubert Humphrey's manful efforts to create a semblance of unity in the Democratic Party had failed in at least one notable instance. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy demanded that, in exchange for his backing, Humphrey promise to support a change of government in Saigon, reform the draft and overhaul Democratic Party machinery. Replied Humphrey: "I am not prone to start meeting conditions." While Lyndon Johnson made his first formal speech on the Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again by his party's dissenters. In California, Assembly Speaker...
...reduce air and water pollution. As possibilities for budget cuts or stretch-outs, he has cited public works, the supersonic transport, the post-Apollo space program and federal highway construction. With the war's end, part of the fiscal savings should be used to replace the draft with a volunteer, paid "professional" Army. On other issues, Nixon and Humphrey split somewhat less sharply, but keep the economic argument alive. Items...
Kiddie Lit. Specifically, IRDBNGMD is about 17-year-old Jeremy Wolf's decision to enter antiwar work. Should he break the law by refusing to register for the draft? Lacking the true instinct for martyrdom, he decides to become a draft counselor and turns his house into "an underground station on the freedom road to Canada." His dad-having feared the worst-is much relieved...
...within the Nixon Administration can be found in the current issue of the Ripon Forum. The Forum, the publication and essence of the six-year-old Ripon Society, a Cambridge-based group of young GOP liberals, includes this month a series of brief policy papers on Vietnam and the draft, the results of a Ripon poll on the presidential elections, and a guest editorial on Vietnam by the first of the Republican doves, Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon...
...very reason that the Ripon Society can stay comfortably within the GOP no matter how conservative the party may become. The Ripon Society can be "policy-oriented" because it represents almost no one: its members are, above all else, disinterested. There are no strong lobbies within the GOP for draft reform, or public housing, or aid to black businesses, or pro-labor legislation, simply because the groups which seek these kinds of programs--the young, the poor, the blacks--do so within the Democratic party. Therefore the motivations of Republicans who pursue these liberal programs are somewhat more amorphous than...