Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little more patience -or perhaps lots more? How to buy it from the restless young who are streaming back to the campuses? How to buy it from the rest of the country, which so far has been willing to give Richard Nixon time to extricate the U.S. from Viet Nam? With an evident sense that time may soon begin to run out, the President last week made several moves. He announced a second withdrawal of troops from combat and a two-month moratorium on the draft. He applied new pressure on the Congress to make selective service more equitable...
...people." There will be no peace, he predicted, so long as the Administration insists on perpetuating the present government in Saigon or that government refuses to compromise on a postwar coalition. "Why should General Thieu control the destiny of America or dictate the future of young American lives?" Kennedy asked...
Civilized Values. More important than what such activist leaders claim, however, is how other segments of the public may react. It was discontent with the war, felt not only by young radicals but also by businessmen and many other groups, that turned Lyndon Johnson from another term. U.S. business is more than ever on the side of an early peace, as evidenced in part by Wall Street: new peace probes or rumors generally send stock prices jumping upward. Still, it is the campuses that offer the most vocal opposition and provide the broadest base for organized protest. The entire academic...
...Draft the youngest first "so that a young man would become less vulnerable rather than more vulnerable to the draft as he grows older...
...Reduce draft vulnerability from seven years to one. Accordingly, young men would normally become eligible at 19. By the time they reached 20, they could be reasonably sure of being draft-free-unless there were a major emergency...