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To: drewh

1968 no more first year graduate deferments.


122 posted on 09/09/2016 6:19:44 AM PDT by rolling_stone (our founders are rolling over in their graves, and yelling 2nd amendment when all else fails)
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To: rolling_stone

https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal68-1282246

...The Johnson Administration Feb. 16, 1968, abolished draft deferments for most male graduate students and men in “critical” occupations. The National Security Council, of which President Johnson was chairman, recommended the new policy, and it was relayed to all state draft directors by Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey. While the local boards continued to have discretion to grant deferments as they saw fit, Hershey’s recommendations generally were expected to be followed.

The recommendations did not alter the existing policy of drafting the oldest eligible men first. College undergraduates continued to receive deferments, as did medical, dental and divinity students. (Doctors and dentists were subject to a special draft when they completed their training.)....

hillary said she took the lsat her senior year in college and she graduated in 1969 thus entered likely september 1968 thus graduate deferments were already history..february 1968.


136 posted on 09/09/2016 6:32:09 AM PDT by rolling_stone (our founders are rolling over in their graves, and yelling 2nd amendment when all else fails)
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