Word: draft
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After giving Humphrey a substantial margin in 1968, many of the ethnics rejected McGovern this year. Angered by his support of legalized abortion, his attitude toward drugs, his proposed "surrender" to Communist North Viet Nam and amnesty for draft dodgers, these lower-and middle-class Catholic voters deserted the Democratic national ticket in record numbers, contributing significantly to Nixon's margins in the industrial Northern states. The ethnic exodus from...
This is partly because of higher military pay, needed to give another vote-pulling Nixon campaign promise some hope of fulfillment: ending the draft by creating an all-volunteer military force. It is also dictated by Nixon's insistence on improving existing nuclear weapons and building such new systems as the Trident submarine and the B-1 bomber...
...their issue-oriented approach. Roberts remembers that some of the younger Muskie staffers were sympathetic, but that older politicians in the room-confident that front-runners didn't need issues--weren't buying. So despite an invitation from Muskie's administrative assistant, Don Nicholls, to produce a serious draft of their campaign strategy, the Harvard group returned to Cambridge still looking for a candidate...
...upset over the failure of the secret draft agreement to provide for the release of political prisoners held by the Saigon government. A story in The New York Times last Thursday said that Vietnamese in Paris have received reports that the Saigon government has recently begun torturing an imprisoned Saigon student leader. The article also said that persons whom the PRG wants to participate in the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord would remain in Saigon jails according to the terms of the draft agreement...
Coats enlisted in the Marine Corps within eight hours of graduating from Calhoun High School in Merrick, L.I. "I saw no way to beat the draft, and if I had to go, I wanted to get it over with. And it looked as though we were in for a bigger war, with the North Vietnamese coming in, not just the guerrillas." With the 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment of the 3rd Marine Division, he landed in Viet Nam in November 1967 and served six months as a machine-gunner in "Leatherneck Square" adjoining the DMZ. Lance Corporal Coats no longer remembers...