Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While groping for peace, Richard Nixon still faces the grim business of managing war. Last week he sought to humanize the machinery by which his soldiers are conscripted. "The present draft arrangements," he said in a message to Congress, "make it extremely difficult for most young people to plan intelligently as they make some of the most important decisions of their lives, decisions concerning education, career, marriage and family...
...proposal would retain undergraduate college deferments, a "wise national investment" in Nixon's view. A student would be draft-proof until he graduated or left school. Then he would go into the prime age group for a year as if he were still...
Should the bill become law, it will still leave many draft critics unsatisfied. It fails to deal with such questions as conscientious objection and the inconsistencies among local boards in awarding deferments. Nixon promised to have Hershey and the National Security Council study the remaining problems, with new recommendations due Dec. 1. At the same time, Nixon maintains his position that the best way to reform the 29-year-old draft is to eliminate it altogether. Ways to redeem Nixon's campaign pledge to seek an all-volunteer Army are under consideration by an advisory committee. So radical...
...hard to dislodge Fortas. Philip Kurland, a Supreme Court scholar at the University of Chicago, suspected a "planned operation to dump him." Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore called for a congressional investigation to determine if the Republicans had used unreleased information to force Fortas to resign. Still, objections paled beside Fortas' admitted and gross indiscretion. In any case, regardless of the Administration's role, Congress would doubtless have met its constitutional responsibility to police the judiciary...
...concern for what, by his standards, was a relatively small sum of money. Until he went on the bench, he grossed well over $100,000 a year; some estimates go as high as $250,000. His wife, a noted tax lawyer in his old firm of Arnold and Porter, still makes more than $100,000. They lived exceedingly well, but Fortas has also in the past freely donated his expensive time and talent to causes and people he believed in. As it happens, the recent pay raise for Supreme Court Justices was exactly $20,500-$500 more than Wolfson offered...