Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Concerning the implications that President Nixon is enjoying too relaxed a presidency, I recall having read of draft revisions, troop withdrawals, ABM systems, welfare revision plans, de-inflation measures. . . Not all of this, I'm sure, took place in a golf cart or on the 50-yard line...
Small-town housewives and Wall Street lawyers, college presidents and politicians, veteran demonstrators and people who have never made the "V" sign of the peace movement?thousands of Americans who have never thought to grow a beard, don a hippie headband or burn a draft card?planned to turn out on M-day to register their dismay and frustration over Viet Nam. Yes terday's Vietniks are determined to grow into tomorrow's majority...
...liquidating an increasingly obvious mistake not of their making; they must be concerned about the consequences of a U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world; they must remember the fact that the U.S. has global responsibilities that cannot be torn up like a draft card. To Richard Nixon, the M-day protest must seem especially unfair. He has tried hard to settle the war, and he worked out a plan of de-escalation that earlier?say, in the last phase of the Johnson Administration?would have satisfied many war critics. He has at least succeeded...
...majority of workmgmen today want us to get the hell out of Viet Nam." Six months ago, he admits, that was not so. Now, "some think there has been just too much killing and they want it stopped," he says. "Others have kids that will be eligible for the draft pretty soon...
Having said that, Nixon catalogued 18 important programs that he has put to Capitol Hill, including reform of the welfare system, sharing of federal revenue with the states and cities, overhaul of the draft and the Post Office, and tax revision. Congress, to be sure, has been slow to act on Nixon's recommendations-or to do anything else for that matter. But the Administration has been late in developing its program and rarely energetic in promoting it. What Nixon wanted on the record were his large and good intentions: "We intend to begin a decade of government reform...