Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes erratically. In speeches that have become increasingly strident, he has come out on the one hand for sounder money and on the other hand for lower taxes and bigger federal expenditures. He has been at once for a stronger national defense establishment, an early end to the draft, and less reliance on strategic air power...
From legionnaires who one day later approved continuation of the peacetime draft he drew scattered applause by urging that "it is the national will . . . that the draft be ended at the earliest possible moment with the national safety." Some Democratic strategists hoped that Stevenson's end-the-draft call would draw the dramatic reaction of Ike's 1952 "I will go to Korea," but they were disappointed. The proposal was a dud; it was sharply criticized as a perilous panacea that would stir up neutralism abroad and preparedness letdown at home...
What of Stevenson's proposal for an early end to the draft? "I realize that it is always tempting to tell the voters there is an easy way to meet difficult problems . . . But this is no time to suggest to our friends or our possible opponents abroad that America is getting soft and tired, and is looking for an easy way out of our world responsibilities. In this critical moment of history, let us have the good sense and courage to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to carry out America's international responsibilities...
...when Schulman met the governor, his wife and their daughter Carrie Ellen in Seattle. "We talked about everything from Langlie's newly announced keynote-speech assignment at the Republican Convention to his golf handicap," Schulman recalled. At the end the governor had two requests: 1) for the first draft of his keynote speech he wanted a copy of Schulman's notes on his political philosophy, which, Langlie felt, he had just expressed as cogently as he could remember, and 2) could their next meeting be purely social? "On any other basis, you've got enough...
Days before the convention opened, the squire from Libertyville took up his pencil and began to scribble out a draft of his acceptance address. He got scores of unsolicited suggestions and memos. After reading them, he tossed them aside and continued on his own. All last week, even during intervals in the hectic Truman crisis, he returned time and again to the isolation of his small, green-tinted law office on Chicago's South La Salle Street. There, shirt-sleeved and with tie askew, he revised, updated, rephrased and polished. On the convention's last night Adlai Stevenson...