The President's News Conference
09/06/1950
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
It is absolutely essential that selective service be extended for another year, if we are to carry out our commitments in the occupied count...
I think it would be a wonderful thing for them to do that--for 2 days a week.
I don't believe in lobbying by the departments.
The most remarkable demobilization in the history of the world, or 'disintegration,' if you want to call it that.