Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: During the campaign, Ronald Reagan indicated his opposition to a peacetime draft and peacetime registration. Since the Inauguration there have been mixed signals on this, and one of your advisory panels recently recommended reinstituting the draft...
Weinberger: There's a lot of support for the draft in Congress, and within some of the services. The president remains opposed to the draft. He is opposed to the compulsive aspect of it. He would like very much to see if by increasing salaries and educational and other benefits we cannot attract enough people to the services. We will need more people, and we're ordering more planes and ships and one thing or another so we'll need more people in the armed services. We hope to get them on an entirely voluntary basis, and that's what...
Crimson: Under what circumstances would you foresee a return to the draft...
...first $20,000 of income for men in the military services from federal income taxation--a lot of states do that now--and we are considering some educational benefits. All of these things I hope would be enough so that we wouldn't have to go to a draft...
...section on rebuilding our foreign policy wisely urges resumption of SALT talks and dètente. But it then demands more arms, more CIA intervention and the draft...