Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: You mentioned that you would favor getting additional information from the registration process. Does that mean that, without going back to the draft, you might be reopening some of the induction centers...
Crimson: In addition to the manpower element, some advisers have said reinstituting the draft might serve as a deterrent...
...previous wars. And a lot of our European friends and allies, when we push them to support defense efforts more, continually tell us that they have conscription and we don't and we should do it. But the president remains very strongly opposed to the compulsive element in the draft and for that reason we hope to avoid it just as long as we can. If we see that we aren't getting enough people then we would have to think about some other means of doing it. But at the moment, we think...the number of volunteers seems...
...registration we should get more information as part of the registration process. But there doesn't seem to be any particular opposition to it, and it would save time on mobilization, if need be, and to that extent provides a good additional argument why we don't need the draft...
...doesn't do very much good just to have the name and address. I think we need something a little more than is there now. But that's just an administrative matter, that doesn't have anything to do with the basic principle of whether we would draft...