Word: drafted
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...part, Reagan won these victories through shrewd strategy. On the reconciliation bill, for example, the President's calls for bipartisan cooperation induced the Democrats, who control the House, to draft compromises giving Reagan most of what he wanted. He then seized on these concessions to seek still more, artfully cajoling conservative House Democrats to defy their baffled leaders and vote his way. But mostly the President won by exercising raw electoral power. His appeals to the public on TV, and pressure from Reagan supporters in their home districts, convinced many legislators that they could vote against the President only...
Leaders of the anti-draft movement condemned Reagan's decision as hypocritical and predicted that the government would face a "law-enforcement catastrophe" if it tried to prosecute the estimated 800,000 young men who have failed to register--the largest number to have ever resisted registration...
...Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.), a leading Congressional opponent of registration and the draft, said during a hastily called news conference that regardless of Reagan's pledge, the president "is issuing an invitation to institute a peacetime draft...
Barry Lynn, head of the Washington-based group, Draft Action, predicted that Reagan will lose the political support of many voters who had faith in his campaign promises...
...part of his 1980 campaign for office, Reagan formally urged Congress to deny funds for Carter's proposed registration program, writing in a letter to Hatfield, "Advance registration will do little to enhance our military preparedness. Indeed, draft registration may actually decrease our military preparedness by making people think we have solved our defense problems--when we have...