To: ealgeone
Didnt this put an end to the campus protests for the most part? I think the protests were already dying down. The first draft lottery was held December 1, 1969, and that informed a large number of students (including Slick Willie) of the probability whether they might be drafted.
1968 was the worst year of all for protests (and assassinations), and things began to settle some after that year. Nixon took office January of 1969 and began to reduce the number of US ground troops eary in his first term.
The fewer who had any reason to fear the draft, the fewer the protests and demonstrations.
18 posted on
05/04/2014 8:12:05 PM PDT by
Will88
To: Will88; ConservativeStatement; EagleOne; 21twelve
I was in VietNam in 1969, on campus (U of MD) in 70-71, and in the MD National Guard in the ‘70s. And I worked in D.C. in 71 -72. The protests continued, and continued to turn into riots. Indeed, as the War wound down, the radicals got more violent; more desperate as they lost popular support. Bill Ayers and that bunch didn't start talking about putting 25 million recalcitrant ‘capitalists’ in ‘reeducation camps’ until the late 70’s early 80s.
For a while in the first half of the 1970’s, we packed our gear for riot duty every Spring. It was an annual rite of Spring.
72 posted on
05/04/2014 10:19:14 PM PDT by
VietVet
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