Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris talks is now history. It is time for Americans to discard their wartime grudges. As you commented on January 31, we all make mistakes. And as your National Security Affairs adviser remarked, none of us holds any monopoly over morality. Why, then, do you continue to insist that draft evaders be punished by the courts? Are you not thereby demanding that everyone acknowledge that your conduct of the Vietnam war was legal? The Supreme Court has never been willing to rule on the legality of the war which Congress has never declared...
...dead by enemy action plus another 300,000 wounded. Americans suffered more casualties in the Civil War and the two World Wars. Physically speaking, most Americans were untouched by the war. There were no airraid drills; they did not have to fear for their lives (and now the draft has ended). Business went on pretty much as usual. Psychologically, however, Americans had never endured such...
...This apparently was never seriously dealt with in the October draft. But when the talks broke down, Kissinger suggested that the North Vietnamese in effect wanted to ignore the DMZ as a boundary line, thereby reaffirming their contention that South Viet Nam is not a separate country, and that they were preparing to move troops through at will. The present agreement -defining the DMZ as a clearly marked if temporary dividing line and also affirming both the separate identity of South Viet Nam and the ultimate unity of the entire country-is ambiguous enough so that both the North...
...What is there to discuss when Mr. Nixon is going to run the country any way he wants to, regardless of what people say? He admits to it offhandedly; he is convinced that he has The Mandate. So he dismantles poverty programs, jails reporters, and makes pompous statements about draft resisters: "...[they] must pay their price, and that price is not a junket in the Peace Corps, or something like that, as some have suggested. The price is a criminal penalty for disobeying the laws of the United States." My ex-roommate, the same one who woke...
...seems very likely [that] the Administration will smooth out the rough edges of the war and [try] to make it a little easier for the American public to accept. The draft can be 'reformed' to take the pressure off troublesome college students. In time the policy of phased reductions might actually reduce the troop commitment in Vietnam to 200,000 or even fewer. The military command in Vietnam may be able to substitute even heavier air strikes for the costly ground operations that have sent so many young men back to the United States in wooden boxes...