Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Calling his hardest-lining (and fastest-working) speechwriter, Pat Buchanan, the President told him to work up a first draft from some dictated notes. As Buchanan typed into the evening, his boss kept dictating into his IBM recorder. Three more of the machine's recording tubes arrived that night. "It was the old man's speech," said Buchanan. "He knew just what he wanted...
...government. To disentangle Washington and Cambridge would sabotage Harvard financially and force it to acquire an even more elitist, prep-school character. The truly political solution is to throw out the government, not prohibit university "complicity" with that government. In like manner, it would be dangerous to repeal the draft and turn the Pentagon loose with a professional volunteer army. Like the draft, university "complicity" makes the government sensitive and vulnerable to student protest. The political answer is to repeal the Pentagon, not repeal the draft...
...Local draft boards received a Selective Service memorandum on Monday making the Peace Corps the only exception to President Nixon's April 23 decision to stop granting H-A occupational deferments...
Colonel Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of the Massachusetts Selective Service System, said the memorandum of National Director Curtis W. Tarr was dated April 23 but that local draft boards did not receive it until...
...bankruptcy auction, or lucks onto an opportunity card that opens the suburbs to him. He may, of course, run into another sort of op portunity card. One that says, for ex ample, "Mayor Daley reelected. You are picked up and taken directly to the police station for interrogation." Or "Draft call. Roll dice. If you roll an even number, you are drafted and sent to Viet Nam-sell all properties...