Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...center's more recent studies concerned a plan for abolishing the draft altogether in favor of an all-volunteer Army. Nixon hopes to accomplish this ultimately, and DiBona could be a knowledgeable advocate of the plan against the expected Congressional opposition...
Athletic Types. Nixon and Laird originally wanted a man without military persona, someone who, unlike Lieut. General Hershey, 76, would be youth-oriented and attractive to the reformist critics of the present draft system. A couple of university presidents refused outright when approached to take the job. David Maxwell, Pennsylvania's budget director, was not interested. Then the Administration's recruiting effort turned to athletic types. Talent scouts tried to get John Pont, former head coach of Yale and now at Indiana University. Pont, who actively supported Nixon and was the President's occasional golf companion, said...
After Amherst, anchors aweigh! A sensible decision for any draft-eligible student, but in the case of David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, enlistment in the Naval Reserve seemed almost like Ulysses S. Grant joining the Confederates. It seems unlikely that he will wind up as Admiral Eisenhower. After three years of active service and three more in the reserve, David plans to study law. At a White House swearing-in, Former Naval Person Richard Nixon promised his son-in-law: "I've a couple of old uniforms...
During the past three years, several hundred young men have been drafted in clear retaliation for turning in their draft cards to protest the Viet Nam War. Last week the Supreme Court delivered the latest decision in a series that has clipped the power of the Selective Service System to use the draft as a disciplinary weapon. Defying the draft law is still a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. What the court has now outlawed is a maze of additional "delinquency" procedures that have been used since World...
...procedures were often used to punish a wide variety of infractions -failing to report a change in address or marital status, for example. Delinquents faced immediate induction. When the war protests began, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey (who will retire Feb. 16) reminded draft boards of their power to induct delinquents who failed to carry their draft cards. Were such procedures legal...