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Rule 7. He must let someone else, preferably the electorate, decide to make him a candidate. Unabashed seeking of the Presidency is still considered immodest. The decent, in fact the only permissible procedure is to be drafted, as Franklin Roosevelt in 1940, even if it taxes all the candidate's skill to engineer the draft...
...instead of the normal 75 times a minute. This kept him out of World War I when he tried to enlist-until his pastor had him ordained so that he could take a chaplain's commission. Political opponents have tried without success to smear him as a draft dodger. Otherwise the slow heart bothers no one but doctors feeling the Bricker pulse for the first time...
...draft cut deeper. This week Selective Service made new regulations, affecting, with minimum exemption, all able-bodied men 18 to 38 years...
...knows what letters for the draft are on their way tonight...
...Colleges, always great producers of officers, will get a batch of raw material seemingly denied them when the draft age was reduced...