Nixon announces no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam, …
Jun 28, 2013 — Nixon saw ending the draft as an effective political means to undermine the anti-Vietnam war movement. On this day in 1972, President Richard M. Nixon announced that no more draftees would be...
NIXON RULES OUT DUTY IN VIETNAM FOR NEW DRAFTEES
Jun 29, 1972 — Pres Nixon orders, June 28, that no draftees be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for duty there, White House announcement; 4,000 draftees now in Vietnam or draftees already under...
Nixon announces draftees will not go to Vietnam - HISTORY
Nov 16, 2009 — President Nixon announces that no more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for such duty. He also announced that a force of 10,000 troops would be withdrawn by September 1 ...
The 1969 Draft Lottery Didn’t Solve Nixon’s Problems
Dec 2, 2019 — The article misses a very important point of the Vietnam era draft program. Only 25% of the soldiers fighting in Vietnam were draftees. 75% of the soldiers who served in Vietnam were volunteers. During 1970 and beyond procedures were implemented were only a volunteer would be sent to Vietnam whether he was drafted or not.
Luciano S. Martinez: Vietnam and the draft: What was it all about?
Mar 27, 2023 — It was commonly thought by young men who were draft eligible that, if you were drafted, you would be sent to Vietnam. It was also said that draftees would have to serve in a combat unit.
Should the United States Reinstate the Draft? | Military.com
May 17, 2018 — The United States ended its military draft in 1973 after nearly 2.2 million men were conscripted during the Vietnam War era. More than 9 million served during that period, but the majority of...
When Muhammad Ali Refused to Go to Vietnam - The Atlantic
Jun 4, 2016 — On March 9, 1966, at the height of the war, Ali’s draft status was revised to make him eligible to fight in Vietnam, leading him to say that as a black Muslim he was a conscientious...
I Picked Prison Over Fighting in Vietnam - The New York Times
Jun 23, 2017 — I was among the quarter-million to half-million men who violated the law that required us to register for military service and face deployment to Vietnam — the draft.
The Military Draft During the Vietnam War · Exhibit · Resistance …
The military draft and the escalation of the Vietnam war played a major role in turning direct action resistance into a mass movement on college campuses in the mid-1960s, including at the University of Michigan.
The Moral Case for Draft Resistance - The New York Times
Oct 17, 2017 — In effect, the draft turned the Vietnam War into a “working-class war,” as the historian Christian Appy has labeled it, with disproportionate numbers of the poor and working-class sent to...