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President Nixon pushed several major changes to Selective Service: he moved the U.S. draft from an “oldest‑first” system to a youngest‑first order with a randomized lottery (law signed Nov. 26, 1969),...
When Richard Nixon took office in January 1969 he moved quickly to reform the Vietnam-era draft: he cut planned induction calls by 50,000, ordered an end to many deferments, pushed a randomized “lotte...
The defining change to the U.S. draft after 1969 was the shift from local quota-based calls and age-weighted selection to a national, random draft-lottery system instituted by amendment on November 26...
The 1969 amendment that forbade recalling men in later years if they were not drafted in their first year of eligibility altered both the legal mechanics of conscription and the social distribution of...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced the prior “oldest-first” local selection system with a national random-draw meant to reduce perceived unfairness and shorten men’s period of vulnerability to conscripti...