Nixon proposes lottery draft bill
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maximum vulnerability during his 19th year and leave it during his 20th year.
Undergraduate students would continue to be deferred and their year of maximum vulnerability would begin with the expiration of the deferment.
Graduate students would be allowed to complete the full academic year in which they were ordered up for induction, rather than just one term.
The National Security council and the Selective Service director as being directed to review the whole policy of deferments and exemptions and give the President their findings and recommendations.
Nixon said the random draft would be established nationally and applied locally by each draft board to meet its quota.
The President said ultimately the draft should be abolished. Only in 1948, he said, did a peacetime draft become a relatively permanent fact of life for the nation, and now a full generation has grown up under a system of compulsory military service.
Nixon told Congress:
The President had gone over high points of his message with Republican congressional leaders earlier in the day. One of them, House Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan, said he thought the prospects of congressional approval were good.
"I believe these reforms are essential. I hope they can be implemented quickly."
"I am hopeful," he said, "that we can soon restore the principle of no draft in peacetime. But until we do, let us be sure that the operation of the Selective Service system is as equitable and as reasonable as we can make it."
Nixon set out the mechanics of his draft plan in considerable detail.
He said the government plans to designate a "prime age group" every year. This would provide a different pool of persons eligible for the draft for each consecutive 12-month period. This period would be called a Selective Service year, since it would not necessarily start January 1.
The prime age group for any Selective Service year would be made up of those who are 19 at the start of the year. Young men
Speech and drama awards received
Awards for excellence in the department of speech and drama were given last night at the 1969 Honors Banquet in the Kansas Union Big Eight Room.
General departmental awards and scholarships were awarded to four faculty members.
Awards in speech communication and human relations were given to one faculty member and five KU students for outstanding performance in debate.
Six graduate and undergraduate students received awards in the speech pathology and audiology division.
The radio, television, film sequence gave awards to two outstanding senior students and gave a special merit award.
Awards for acting, scene design, directing, lighting, costume design and service were given in the theater and drama division.
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with deferments or exemptions would rejoin this group upon expiration of deferments or exemptions.
he would move down progressively to less vulnerable categories while an entirely new set of young men would be coming up into the new prime age group.
In the first year of operation, nobody would escape vulnerability to the draft merely because of a change from one system to another. This would be assured by a system under which all eligible men from 19 to 26 who are not deferred or exempt would go into the prime age group.
Each individual would have maximum vulnerability to the draft only in the year he is in the prime group. After that, normally during his 20th year,
Nixon said this would mean a young man would receive an earlier, more decisive answer to his question of where he stands with the draft and thus could plan his life accordingly.
Since more men are available for military service than are needed to fill draft calls, Nixon said, there must be some fair method of determining who will be called first, second or not at all.
He said it is his judgment that a fair system is one which makes random the order of selection. To assure that each person in a prime age group would have the same chance, Nixon recommended this procedure:
Three months after the proposed new draft law takes effect, the first Selective Service year would begin. Before the start of each such year, the dates of its 365 days would be placed in a sequence by a random method. Those spending the following year in the draft pool would go into the draft sequence in the same order that their
birthdays come up on what the President called "the scrambled calendar."
To illustrate, he said the scrambling might result in those born January 12 and then those born October 23.
Every year a new random order would be established for the following year's draft pool and those sharing the same birthday would be reshuffled further on the basis of the first letter of their last names. But so there would be no discriminating against those at the front of the alphabet, Nixon said, the alphabet also would be scrambled in a random manner.
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