Westmoreland got angry: "I don't like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves." And Friedman got rolling: "I don't like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries. If they are mercenaries, then I, sir, am a mercenary professor, and you, sir, are a mercenary general." And he did not stop: "We are served by mercenary physicians, we use a mercenary lawyer, and we get our meat from a mercenary butcher"Elimination of the draft was one of the few positive accomplishments of the Nixon administration, thanks in part to Prof. Friedman's persuasive arguments.
Too bad he had so little sway with Nixon's economic policies.
Yep -- and it is, frankly, disgraceful that neither Reagan, nor Bush, nor Bush swept the federal regulations clean of Peanut Head's legacy.