Read on to learn more about this controversial facet of what was once America’s longest war. It wasn’t the first draft in American history ... The draft during the Vietnam War was not the ...

Both Trump and Biden came of age during the Vietnam War era, when males 18 and older were eligible to be drafted into military service, but both obtained multiple draft deferments that kept them ...

1969 Vietnam War Draft Lottery: How the draft worked. Registration with the Selective Service is considered crucial to national security strategy. Mandatory registration resumed in 1980 under P ...

On Jan. 21, 1977, the day after his inauguration, Carter issued Executive Order 11967, granting a pardon to all Vietnam War draft dodgers. It included those who failed to register for the draft ...

When President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated in 1977, he wasted little time fulfilling one of his most controversial campaign promises: pardoning those who evaded the Vietnam War draft. Carter ...

To the editor: I could have faced a similar fate to Vietnam War draft resister Bob Zaugh. (“A draft resister, a judge and the moment that still binds them after 54 years,” June 14) Vietnamese ...

In “Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation,” Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss attributed the change to the successful strategy of resistance leaders to ...

“The draft really changed ... What happened during the Fall of Saigon and throughout the Vietnam War still shapes American policy overseas. “Any time the US military is proposed to be engaged ...

Subsequent draft lotteries for the Vietnam War were held in 1970, 1971, and 1972. Though some saw the televised draft lottery as a way to randomize the selection process, detractors of the war ...