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...militarily educable, but few have families, thus saving the government rice allowances and family bonuses normally paid to older, married soldiers. And, since the Viet Cong are recruiting at younger and younger ages, the government hopes to get to the boys before the enemy does. It also intends to induct some 45,000 students in Vietnamese colleges and universities who are failing to take regular, successful examinations. The 25,000 left in the colleges will be fitted for uniforms as soon as they graduate...
Nohl said that he has no guarantee that draft boards would wait to induct students involved in the accelerated program until after they received their degrees. "We can only hope the draft boards will respect what we're doing," he said...
...year-olds first. The new law empowered the President to make that change but severely limited his choice of a new selection system. It prohibited random selection as well as a shift that would call the youngest men first in ascending age sequence. He could have chosen to induct men from any or all of the seven eligible age groups (19 to 25 years) but was compelled to draft the oldest men first within each group chosen...
Without an extension of graduate deferments, a change in call became particularly important because oldest first would induct nearly all of this years able-bodied male college graduates and first-year graduate students. Johnson was well aware of the effects no change would have on the graduate schools. The American Council on Education, President Pusey, and other education officials had done a thorough job of informing him through personal meetings with Defense Secretary McNamara and Presidential aide Douglass Cater, public testimony before representative Edith Green's (D-Ore.) Special House Subcommittee on Education, and personal conversations behind the scenes...
Over all those years, none of his actions has received the violent criticism that followed his October letter to local boards directing them to induct war and draft protestors. Hell broke loose all around him, with newspapers, educators, and civil libertarians across the country demanding his retirement. His directive was also strongly attacked on the Senate floor, but not one word was said there against him personally. Senior and junior congressmen alike are deferent to him in committee hearings...