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The Selective Service held a birth-date lottery on December 1, 1969, drawing 366 capsules — one for each calendar date including February 29 — to assign an “order of call” number to every man born 194...
The White House has hosted two distinct presidential pools: an , and a ; the indoor pool was later covered and repurposed as the press briefing room . The outdoor pool, financed by private donations a...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced the prior age-based system with a randomized drawing of birthdays to determine the order of induction for men born 1944–1950, a change meant to make conscription fairer...
The 1969 draft lottery introduced a random sequence for induction while leaving college (II‑S) deferments largely intact for already‑enrolled students — but it shortened how long those deferments shie...
The 1969 draft lottery was created by the Nixon administration to replace a system seen as biased against the poor and less-educated, but the December 1, 1969 drawing itself produced statistically ano...
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 December 1, 1969 draft lottery converted a previously age‑based system into a public, birth‑date‑based random selection process, pairing every day of the year with a sequence number drawn from cap...
The 1969 draft lottery replaced a locally-driven, age-based induction system with a national, birthdate-based lottery that randomly ordered men born 1944–1950 for call-up, thereby changing who faced i...
The Constitution vests the power of the purse in Congress and obligates the President to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” creating a structural tension over spending that courts and s...
U.S. decision to resupply Israel during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War triggered a sharp rupture with key Arab oil producers and was the proximate cause cited by Arab OPEC/OAPEC members for imposing ...
The contemporaneous record does not show a clear, documented federal legal justification that was cited to direct or authorize the Ohio National Guard’s tactics on May 4, 1970; the Guard remained unde...
The 1969 draft lottery overhauled how men were selected for induction but did not immediately abolish college student deferments; undergraduate II‑S deferments largely survived the lottery even as gra...
The 1969–72 Vietnam draft lotteries assigned every birth date (including Feb. 29) a random number from 1–366; men with lower numbers were called before those with higher numbers for induction . The dr...