Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Federal Judge George Hart ruled Thursday that he was powerless to act on a suit challenging the constitutionality of a letter sent last fall to the nation's local draft boards by Selective Service System Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey...
...write-in efforts that now have Rockefeller's consent could fizzle. Speaking out on controversial issues could renew enmity as well as arouse a following. The press that gave Romney such a bad time will now be dissecting Rockefeller's every move to see whether the "draft" meets his own criteria of being "meaningful, natural and genuine...
...gate, there is the additional fact that this is something of a grudge match. Nixon and Rockefeller collided in 1960 over the nomination when, as today, Nixon was the announced candidate with much strength in the regular party organization and Rockefeller the non-candidate in search of a draft. The contest was woefully uneven then, but Nixon badly wanted the backing of liberal Republicans. Rockefeller refused to consider the vice-presidential nomination, harpooned the outgoing Eisenhower Administration-and by implication, Nixon-and, as the price of support, exacted from Nixon the famed 14-point Fifth Avenue compact that put Nixon...
...crack you up." Sprinkled throughout are quick flashes of famous faces (Peter Lawford, winking broadly: "You don't have to be happy to be gay"), and a variety of sight gags, such as Teletype streamers that chug across the bottom of the screen ("Eartha Kitt-call your draft board...
...committee, would be "both unwise and poses serious constitutional problems." A copy of the committee's proposals will be circulated to every federal judge for comment, and in September the full Judicial Conference, which is headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, will be asked to pass a final draft...