Abstract

Editorials

The article presents information on the U.S. political developments during the late 1960's. The Vietnamese war will continue to be a political liability for the Democrats, it also affords chances for political maneuver which President Lyndon Baines Johnson simply cannot overlook. President Johnson has decided to make an escalating military budget and increase taxes while making protests of the Americans against the war seem unpatriotic. The U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Secretary of Labor William Willard Wirtz are reacting to the draft with the impatience and lack of deliberation of placard-carrying collegians. In the past few weeks McNaniara has spoken out for a lottery as the solution of Selective Service inequities and Wirtz has publicly proposed an extension of the "alternate-service" idea to cover all young people.