Word: laird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs of Shelley Winters. The Harrison book, on the other hand, is so baroque that it seems like the whimsical indulgence of a laird with enough money to buy into NATO...
...Laird: Doing away with registration caused a significant change in attitudes toward the military. Every young person, just by the act of registering at age 18, was made aware of the fact that at some future time he might be called upon. This gave him pause to consider joining the military. You may not think that is significant, but I do. It is also important to maintain and have registration in working order in case of mobilization...
Otis: I go 100% with any force that is obtained first by volunteers and only thereafter by some sort of conscription. You also need registration to speed up mobilization. I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Laird; registration confronts youth with their national commitment...
...Laird: I have no problem with drafting into the reserves; I have no problem with registration. But the only current solution available to you-and I hate to get back to this-is to use some money. Do you think that you could get the draft for the reserves through Congress...
...Laird: It was a very good draft, a fair draft. We put in the lottery system and did away with the college deferments...