Vietnam has been a profoundly sobering lesson in the limits of U.S. power.
It's hardly competitive with what most people can earn in civilian life.
I say it's time we took a new look at the draft—at the question of permanent conscription in a free society.
We should stop the draft and put our Selective Service structure on stand-by.
Once our involvement in the Vietnam war is behind us, we move toward an all-volunteer armed force.
It's time we looked to our consciences.
We have to level with students.
The most important message I receive from young people today is this: 'Don't try to hand us our lives on a silver platte...
This is a yawning gulf of irritated boredom between the two halves of our body politic.
Youth today has a right to demand that an older generation live up to two responsibilities: to guide and to listen.
We will see youth respect its elders when we show some respect for the opinions of our youngsters.
They are more socially conscious, more politically aware, and much better educated than their parents were at age 18.
The present Administration has been so transfixed by Federal power that it has ignored the power of people.
Is it I?
These years of turmoil have shocked Americans into a recognition of how enormous are the social tasks ahead of us, and h...
Beginnings are being made.
As the nation's first citizen, the President should be the chief patron of citizen efforts.
The problem lies not with the American people, but with a government that has lost touch with the people.
