Word: hershey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Richard Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird decided in October to ease Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey out of his job, it appeared that the right successor would be hard to find. Forty names were considered for the position in what Administration aides came to call the great man hunt. Firm offers went to several men whose polite replies, when translated, amounted to "Hell, no, I won't go." The Selective Service System, after all, is vilified by many youngsters, attacked and second-guessed on Capitol Hill, and burdened with an archaic network of local boards that constitute...
When David Earl Gutknecht laid his draft card at the feet of a federal marshal in Minneapolis during a Viet Nam War protest in 1967, Selective Service Director Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey was not amused. After similar acts of defiance by other potential draftees, Hershey sent a memorandum encouraging local draft boards to discipline the protesters by accelerating their inductions as rapidly as Selective Service regulations would permit. Thereupon Gutknecht's draft board declared him "delinquent";* six days later he was jumped ahead of nondelinquent registrants and ordered drafted. He refused to submit and was convicted and sentenced...
...President Nixon has not yet announced his nominee to replace Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, the retiring director of the Selective Service System. But John Pont, head football coach at Indiana University, said Nixon telephoned three weeks ago and asked him to take the position. Pont said that he turned down the offer...